What upcoming changes to security landscape should be taken into account?
Security priorities continue to shift as more infrastructure, collaboration, and administration workflows depend on remote access and Internet-facing services. It is worth understanding which changes in the security landscape actually matter for monitoring, and what they mean for day-to-day operations.
Remote access, externally exposed services, and cloud-hosted tooling all increase the importance of timely vulnerability awareness, transport-security checks, and fast alerting on unusual events.
Below are some pieces of advice on what to expect of appearing security challenges and what could that mean for network monitoring specifics.
Follow CVE registry entries
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, CVE, is still the main public catalog of disclosed vulnerabilities. For practical prioritization, it is also worth watching CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which highlights issues that are known to be exploited in the wild.
By using HTTP(S) or Web Transaction monitors, one can track search results or status pages related to software in use. If a more detailed workflow is needed, a script-based monitor is the better fit: external scripts and programs is the right tool for custom checks, while HTTP(S) monitors can also validate response text.
Detect legacy TLS versions and weak cipher usage
TLS 1.2 remains a normal compatibility baseline for many services, while TLS 1.3 is the preferred modern version. In practice, the main monitoring goal is usually to detect legacy protocol support, obsolete configurations, or unexpectedly weak transport settings before they become a security or compatibility problem.
You can read the blog post describing how to detect TLS version for a given site. The same approach can be adapted to other TLS-using protocols, such as SMTP, POP3, or IMAP. In practice, such checks are most useful when combined with ordinary HTTP(S) reachability checks and certificate monitoring, so that you validate not only protocol support but also the overall health of the secure service.
Automate IDS report analysis
Watching for possible security issues manually is no longer possible; situation requires both quick detection and quick reaction to upcoming threats.
Thus, if intrusion-detection or other security tools are already in use, Syslog monitor can be used to turn their findings into immediate monitoring events. Current IPNetwork Monitor help documentation explicitly treats Syslog monitors as passive, event-driven monitors, which makes them a natural fit for this kind of workflow.
The same approach can be used for other security-related tools as well, including block/ban automation such as fail2ban or custom scripts. Where active response is needed, IPNetwork Monitor alerting can also run local programs, execute commands over SSH, set SNMP values, or send HTTP(S) requests to external systems.
Conclusion
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