Improving cyber compliance with infrastructure automation

Protecting public data requires two capabilities that federal law enforcement agencies lack today. One is a holistic view of all network and server activity across multiple organizations. The other is automated remediation based on the nature of the threat and the agency’s playbook. Examples include enforcing the same list of banned network addresses across multiple agencies, sending alerts if these addresses are seen, quarantining a suspicious workload until it can be investigated, and terminating a virtual server exhibiting anomalous behavior and then spinning up a new one from a trusted source.

Benefits of automated cyber compliance in law enforcement include:

	Faster incident detection.
	Faster remediation, shortening the vulnerability window.
	Reduced resource requirements for threat mitigation.
	Increased job satisfaction because cybersecurity professionals can shift their focus from mundane monitoring activities to higher-value work—a recruitment and retention advantage.