Implementing monitoring
A crucial element of security is ensuring that the necessary security policies are in place and that the environments are indeed protected. This may sound simple, but it requires proper configuration of monitoring. Developers need information to help them fix bugs in the first place but also to improve the code and with that, the application. This applies to customer experience and performance, but also to ensuring that the application remains protected. Hackers don't sit on their hands: they constantly find out new ways of attacking systems. Hence, we need to constantly monitor what happens to and inside an application.
Security monitoring is not only about detecting unexpected behavior. It's about analyzing all behavior. This provides insights to developers to help them improve their code. For that, monitoring needs to facilitate three main services:
- Collect
- Analyze
- Alert
Sometimes, storage and visualization are added to...