DevSecOps Notes

Cloud Service Agreements a) Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) - Acceptable Use Policies should be implemented in on-premieses solutions to educate users abaout allowed and prohibited actions that can be taken on those systems. However, they should be used in cloud solutions as well. - AUPs are commonly part of the CSA. they are used to distnguish what is or is not acceptable behavior while accessing or utilizing the cloud  resources. - These cloud be used to outline particular prohibited activities, as well as relase the CSP of legal liablity in the case the unlawful actions are carried out in the cloud environment by the customer. - AUPs often include information regarding violations of the acceptable use policy. - Many CSPs will terminate the relationship with the customer if the Acceptable Use Policy is violated in a way that may negatively impact the reputation of the CSP. - The AUP between CSP and the customer is a delicate document, and requires the customer to respec...

1. Overview 1.1 Splunk Enterprise Overview Splunk Enterprise Features a) Index -Source data from websites, applications, servers, databses and more -Index your IT data into Splunk b) Search -Primary way you will navigate youre data in splunk -Search can also be used as report to power dashobard panels c) Alerts -Get notified when search results meet specific conditions -Alert actions can spend an email, post to an RSS feed, or execute a script d) Dashoboards -Combine panels into a wholistic view of your data -Panels can contain search boxes, fields, charts, and  more e) Pivot -Map attributes to a table, chart, or data visualization -Can be saved as raports and added to dashboards f) Reports -Save searches as pivot reports and then add reports to dashboards as panels -Run them ad-hoc or on a schedulde Splunk Enterprise Components a) Forwarder -Collects and forwards data to an indexer -Low resource usage allowing them to reside on many machin...