Salt Air 34 - An Introduction To SaltStack SecOps

On this episode of Salt Air Thomas Hatch and Alex Peay discuss why SaltStack intelligent automation is uniquely designed to help security and IT teams work together to make digital business infrastructure more secure. SaltStack event-driven automation delivers continuous compliance through policy definition, real-time infrastructure scanning, and automated issue and vulnerability remediation. Check out SaltStack SecOps for automated IT security remediation at scale. https://www.saltstack.com/products/secops/

Watch this episode of Salt Air to see a live demo of SaltStack SecOps automate continuous compliance for enterprise IT infrastructure. SaltStack SecOps is unique in providing IT operations and security teams with a collaborative, event-driven automation and orchestration platform. SaltStack SecOps scans IT systems against custom or industry standard security policies then automates the remediation of security vulnerabilities associated with misconfigured, non-compliant infrastructure. From continuous detection to true resolution, SaltStack SecOps is the only cybersecurity product to deliver natively integrated, fully automated and continuous compliance for infrastructure security at enterprise scale. To learn more, please visit: https://www.saltstack.com/products/secops/

Watch this episode of Salt Air for a demo of SaltStack Enterprise 6.0. SaltStack Enterprise 6.0 ships with a completely redesigned user interface guided by user-centered design principles. Every view in the SaltStack Enterprise console has been updated. The new console is designed around customer workflows and supports the most-common tasks. With a focus on usability and simplicity, the SaltStack Enterprise console elements are consistent across the product. For more information, please visit https://www.saltstack.com/products/saltstack-enterprise/

Salt uses a server-agent communication model, (though it works well as a standalone single-server management utility, and also provides the ability to run agentless over SSH). The server component is called the Salt master, and the agent is called the Salt minion. The Salt master is responsible for sending commands to Salt minions, and then aggregating and displaying the results of those commands. A single Salt master can manage thousands of systems. Watch this video to learn more about the Salt high-speed communication bus. www.saltstack.com

SaltStack Enterprise 5.5 includes powerful new features for universal control of hybrid IT environments at scale. SaltStack Enterprise software reduces the burden of system maintenance while giving IT teams the ability to focus on more strategic initiatives like infrastructure security and digital innovation. SaltStack Enterprise 5.5 includes new features built to make every member of the IT operations team more efficient, including: - Job Center: Insight and control into every SaltStack job—scheduled, in progress, or completed. - Job Scheduler: Orchestrate SaltStack jobs to run automatically through an action-oriented interface. Define and schedule jobs proactively. Spend less time babysitting ad-hoc tasks and more time on high-impact initiatives like reliability and security. - Agentless Windows control: The fastest and most-scalable agentless systems management product now controls Windows too. Use SaltStack with an agent, without an agent, or both. - Much more: A simplified installer; Redis integration; API enhancements; Increased performance and stability. https://www.saltstack.com/blog/new-saltstack-enterprise-55-release-delivers-intelligent-it-automation-hybrid-infrastructure-operations/

Legacy systems management software from companies like BMC, HP, CA or IBM often took weeks or months to implement. Install SaltStack Enterprise in less than five minutes and get a systems management platform built to intelligently orchestrate and automate digital infrastructure at scale. Watch Glazier Ward of SaltStack install SaltStack Enterprise in less than five minutes on this six-minute Salt Air episode. https://www.saltstack.com/products/saltstack-enterprise/

This is Salt Air episode 33. SaltStack is excited to announce the release of Salt 2019.2.0, codenamed Fluorine. This highly anticipated Salt release is substantial by the numbers, and is already getting positive feedback from our user community. New SaltStack network automation features and even more Salt support for other infrastructure management tools like Ansible, Terraform, and Docker are just a few of the highlights of this release. Get access to the Salt 2019.2.0 release here: https://www.saltstack.com/download-saltstack-automation-engine/

SaltStack Enterprise was created to make the power of Salt orchestration and automation available to the entire IT organization. What's more SaltStack Enterprise is designed to amplify the ability of every IT employee to help better manage and secure digital business. Watch this episode of Salt Air to learn more about the SaltStack Enterprise architecture including the Salt automation engine, the SaltStack operations framework, the SaltStack command and control console, and pluggable solutions for ITOps, NetOps, and SecOps use cases. https://www.saltstack.com/products/saltstack-enterprise/

Event-driven automation is one reason why SaltStack is unique and different compared to other systems management tools. Tom takes to the whiteboard to explain the design of SaltStack event-driven architecture and shares a few use cases that leverage the SaltStack Reactor and Beacons system. Watch this Salt Air episode to learn why SaltStack is intelligent IT automation. www.saltstack.com

The window of time between the discovery of a security vulnerability and exploitation of that vulnerability is constantly shrinking. Enterprise security and IT operations teams are racing against the clock to protect their businesses against rapidly moving threats. The task is becoming more complex and the remediation window is shrinking. Learn how SaltStack SecOps can help automate rapid discovery and remediation of cybersecurity vulnerabilities to ultimately protect and secure digital business infrastructure from escalating threats, and tighter security windows. https://www.saltstack.com/solutions/secops/