According to leading IT research firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), 75% of enterprises have observed increased collaboration between network operations and security operations teams in recent years, but only 39% of organizations believe this collaboration is completely successful. EMA describes this increased convergence of networking and security as NetSecOps. Check out these slides to learn more about: - Why and how NetOps and SecOps teams need to work together - Why these partnerships often fail - How network automation can enable this collaboration, including the types of tools that can help and the use cases that are most essential - Real-world examples from the trenches about how these teams have come together successfully

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Building a Foundation for
NetSecOps Partnerships
with Network Automation
Shamus McGillicuddy
Vice President of Research
EMA
Kelly Baig
Director of Market Strategy
Blue Planet
John Cavanaugh
CTO
NetCraftsmen

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• Building a Foundation for NetSecOps Partnerships with Network
Automation On-Demand Webinar:
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Featured Speakers Shamus leads the network infrastructureand operations
practice. He has more than 16 years of experience in the
IT industry.His research focuses on all aspects of
managing enterprise networks,including network
automation, AIOps-driven network operations,multi-cloud
networking,and WAN transformation.
John leads a team of consultantsfocused on designing
and delivering scalable, highly available and secure
infrastructuresolutions to customers across multiple
industry verticalsand technologies. Before joining
NetCraftsmen, John held severalpositions including
ExecutiveDirector and Chief Architect for Global Network
Services at JPMorgan Chase.
Kelly joined the Blue Planet Enterprise (BPE) program in
March 2021 from HPE/Aruba whereshe was responsible
for GTM strategies and execution for services, education,
and NaaS solutions. Prior to HPE, Kelly worked at a variety
of technology companies that included EMC and
Commvault along with running her own GTM agency with
clients that included Avnet,Arrow,and Bell Micro.
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Shamus McGillicuddy
Vice President of Research
Network Infrastructure and Operations
Kelly Baig
Director of Market Strategy
Blue Planet
John Cavanaugh
CTO
NetCraftsmen

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NetSecOps
Collaboration:
Essential, but Arduous

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75% of IT Organizations Report Growth in NetSecOps Collaboration
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Drivers of Collaboration
81% Public cloud adoption/migration
81% Work from home/work from anywhere
81% Data center modernization
79% IoT/Edge computing
75% DevOps
72% WAN transformation (SD-WAN/SASE)
68% Zero trust security

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NetSecOps parterships serve the
interestsof other IT groups
66.4% ITSM
53.8% IT governance/financial management
53.0% CloudOps
50.5% Data center I&O
41.5% DevOps
The Many Benefits of Successful Collaboration
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“You will get a final product that is
more secure, better implemented,
and can recover from disaster.”
Network security architect
$2.5 billion software company
Benefits of successful NetSecOps partnerships

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A Difficult, Unnatural Partnership
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“[The security team is] too esoteric. They ask,
‘Why is theapplication team puttingthishere
instead of there?’ That ship has already sailed.
We often get thesense that [security] doesn’t
understand what thebusiness is.”
Network architect
$15 billion retailer
“When thenetwork team is building something
and working on a deadline, theysee thesecurity
team as a roadblock tohitting a milestone,
especially if leadership is pushing them torun
thingstightly.”
Network security architect
$2.5 billion software company
Only 39% reported fully successful
NetSecOps partnership
Different perspectives
24% Engineers/Architects/Admins
69% IT Execs
Top challenges to collaboration
28% Data quality/authority issues
25% Cross-team skills gaps
21% Budget issues
20% Architectural complexity
19% Lack of tools/technologies that enable
collaboration

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Most Critical Areas of Collaboration
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“Changemanagement is themost important.We’ve trained securityto look at
certain thingseven before it comes to us. If someone requests a change torouting
or firewalls, thefirst person that approvesthat changeis theinfo securityteam.”
Director of global network infrastructure and operations,
$80-billion technology company
Implementing
Technology
Provisioning and
configuring new
infrastructure
Policy implementation
1 2 4
3
Infrastructure
planning & design
Network design
Policy design
Technology
evaluation&
procurement
Research ZTNA, SASE,
multi-cloud
RFPs, budget sharing
Operational
monitoring
NPM, NDR, SIEM
Alerts, escalations,
eventmanagement
More important to
organizations focused
on WFH and zero trust
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Change
management
Moves,adds, changes
Network change
approvals
44% 37% 33%
36% 23%

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Network Automation
as a NetSecOps
Foundation

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Nearly 91% of Organizations Believe Network Automation is Important to
NetSecOps Collaboration
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“Automation givesus consistent
configurations,consistent
controls,and easy rollouts of
changes. .It also allows us, from
a data collection standpoint,to
get better insight intowhat’s
going on in thenetwork.That
consistencyreduces risk.”
Director of network engineering
and operations,
$7 billion healthcareenterprise
Importance of automation tools to facilitating NetSecOps collaboration
Best practice focus
The most successful collaborators are more likely to
rate network automation as very important.

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Modern Network Automation Solutions Offer a Shared Network Source of Truth
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A network source of
truth provides visibility
into networkintent
Config data
DDI data (IP space, DNS)
Security Policies
Manually-builtsources of
truth lead to:
65% Operational inefficiency
45% Lack of change visibility
41% Introduction of security
vulnerabilities
35% Performance degradation
NetOps and SecOps can use a
source of truth to…
Enforce security and compliance policies
during moves, adds, and changes
Audit the network
Troubleshoot performance
Investigate security incidents
74% of organizations want automation platforms that gather and store data in a network source of truth

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Tasks That NetOps and SecOps Want to Automate Together
Event
management
Detecting faults,
breaches, escalating
to subject matter
experts
1 2 4
3
Infrastructure
provisioning
Favored by
most successful
collaborators
Incident
response
Higher for members
of security teams
Infrastructure
lifecycle
management
5
Network
design
53% 51% 46%
47% 36%
Self-service networking and security
74% of organizations want to leverage network automation to empower
orchestration of networking and security services for application teams
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Relevant Network Automation Solutions
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Automation tools most useful for collaboration
47%
Network change
and
configuration
management
46%
Security policy
automation
Favored by most
successful
collaborators
42%
Infrastructure as
code platforms
(Ansible,
Terraform)
41%
DDI automation
(DNS, DHSCP,
IPAM)
Favored by
members of
securityteams

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Finding the Right Network Automation Solutions
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Top platform requirements
44% Ease of deployment and administration
40% Third-party integrations
38% Ease of use
38% Scalability
Top feature requirements
43% Device lifecycle management
40% Security policy design/implementation/audit
38% Change analysis/modeling
37% Configuration compliance monitoring
34% Change management
Networkassurance capabilities
89% of organizations recognize the importance of
integrated monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities
in automation solutions
• Successful users of network automation are more
likely to rate this as very important
Top use cases
• 58% Monitor security and compliance risk
• 53% Measure application performance and health
• 53% Monitor network device health

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AI and Machine Learning
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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
AIOps technology can improve collaboration between your
organization’s network team and security team.
How companies use AI/ML capabilities
embeddedin networkautomation
solutions
33% Security and compliance insights
33% Automated network problem remediation
32% Proactive security protection
30% Improve quality of network source of truth

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Final Thoughts
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Digital disruptions are forcing NetOps and SecOps to collaborate more
NetSecOps partnerships are difficult to build
Enterprises believe network automation can enable and encourage this
collaboration
This network automation should
• Establish a network source of truth
• Meet the requirements of both teams
• Leverage AIOps technology to provide meaningful insights

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Automation, Orchestration and Service
Chaining

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Most Enterprises
• IT is structured with numerous siloed
functional ‘Towers’:
• Applications Development
• Server/Cloud Infrastructure Team
• Network Team
• Security Team
• Operations
• Each works independent of each
other
• Constructing and delivering a new service or
even a new location with an existing service
requires a Project with a PM to coordinate
the activity between all parties
Most Service Providers
• Structured around Service
Delivery
• Designing a new service takes
significant time and effort
• (Months to years)
• Delivering an existing service to a
new client or location is simple
• Agile Service Delivery has
emerged:
• Driving down efforts for new services
• (weeks to months)
Enterprise Background

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Enterprise
• Delivery of new Services to users
• Done piecemeal by each tower
• Improvements can be significant
• But results:
• Can be less than desired
• Because they are no tied to an end-
to-end service
Service Providers
• Agile Services
• Drove providers towards
• Network and Security Functions in
software
• General Purpose CPE Devices
• Defined as Network Function
Virtualization (NFV)
Automation Use Case

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▪ Network Functions are SW-based over well-known HW
▪ Multiple roles over same HW
ORCHESTRATION,AUTOMATION
& REMOTE INSTALL
DPI
BRAS
GGSN/
SGSN
Firewall
CG-NAT
PE Router
VIRTUAL
APPLIANCES
STANDARD
HIGH VOLUME
SERVERS
Virtualised Network Model:
VIRTUAL APPLIANCE APPROACH
v
▪ Network Functions are based on specific HW&SW
▪ One physical node per role
DPI
BRAS
GGSN/SGSN
Session Border
Controller
Firewall CG-NAT
PE Router
Traditional Network Model:
APPLIANCE APPROACH
Service Providers: The NFV Concept
A means to make the network and security more flexible and
simpler by minimising dependence on HW constraints

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Most Enterprises
• Any end-to-end service flow
involves multiple towers
• No one group is responsible for
the full end-to-end picture
• So - improving one or even most
independent element(s) may not
result in any overall improvement
in delivery
Read ”The Phoenix Project”
Failure Case: Security
• Virtualization team at a Fortune 500
• Created a portal for their Developers
• This automated their workflow and was
a hit with the development community
• But simply dumped Network requirements,
Firewall and Other Security requests into an
email queue for their respective towers
• Results?
• Churn in the VMware world created a
situation where LB and FW rules were
orphaned when VMs were removed
• The ‘intended state’ linking workloads to
network and security was not tracked
creating a massive issue
Enterprise: Results

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Service Providers & CSPs
• Chose the NFV route
• Fits the SP/CSP Model
• Simple end-to-end Orchestration
• But Services are simple and
repeatable
Enterprises
• Typically, not sold on the
NFV/Whitebox model, but did
adopt SDN and Cloud
• Services are complex and are
often a hybrid of on-Prem, SaaS
and Cloud
Requires an Orchestration system
that can track end-to-end flows
across all IT towers with NFV like
precision
Enterprise: Service Chaining and Orchestration Use Case

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Enterprise: Call to Action
• Forrester in a 2021 Paper stated:
• Merge Security And Networking, Or Sunset Your Business
• They were driving at the problem created by the Tower-based approach to delivering
services and the requirement to think end-to-end
• This problem happened because the majority of current ITSM systems do not have a
single source of truth, in fact recent Gartner studies provide evidence that Enterprise
CMDBs are rarely complete
• This leads us and the Enterprise community looking for new approaches
and systems to solve the issue
• Solving the issue requires that:
• A system being delivered as code – with schema-based approaches that define intent
and self document
• For organizations that can’t do this themselves - they need an ITSM system that can

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Proven in the world’s largest, most sophisticated networks
Intelligent network automation software for mid-tier enterprise NOC teams and MSPs
Global Team of
700+ Specialists
Headquartered in
Hanover, Maryland
200+ Customers
globally, serving industries including:
• Energy and Utilities
• Public Sectorand Education
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• Manufacturing
• Retail
• Healthcare
• Telecommunications
Industry Innovations
• Industry 1st multi-vendor SDN
suite for Service Providers
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for WAN/NFV/Cloud
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Service Lifecycle Automation

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Work-From-
Home
Shift from
Hardware and Office-
Centric Edge
Ethernet
Wifi Firewall
Router
Datacenter
Branches
Cloud
Provider
Public
Private
Shift to
Software Defined
Virtual Network
Functions
SASE
Branches
Cloud
Provider
Public
Private
Migration to
Cloud
SDWAN
SDBRANCH
How are your NOC and SOC teams keeping up?
How Our Customers are Evolving
NOC SOC
NOC and SOC
Team Collaboration
Need network
visibility and control
Leading use-cases adding pressure to NetOps:
M&A; IoT; Compliance; Cloud; Work-from-Home

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Networks are critical
but require automation
to help reduce
complexity and risk
Why
Network
Automation?
Customer and employee satisfaction
depends on reliable network services
An incomplete view of the network
impacts performance and security risk
Automation is key to addressing
modern networking skills gap

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What Sets Blue Planet Apart
Top Platform Requirements
✓ Ease of deployment and administration (44%)
✓ Third-party integrations (40%)
✓ Ease of use (38%)
✓ Scalability (38%)
Top Feature Requirements
✓ Device lifecycle management (43%)
✓ Security policy design/implementation/audit (40%)
✓ Change analysis/modeling (38%)
✓ Configuration compliance monitoring (37%)
✓ Change management (34%)

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Blue Planet Enterprise Automation Suite
Critical capabilities for network automation
Inventory
Visibility
Continuous
Compliance
Maintain device list
down to serial # and
location for proactive
management and
planning
Ensure automated
compliance with
standard network
configurations to avoid
security exposures
Faultand
Performance
Monitoring
Continuously monitor
network for faults and
failures to enable
rapid remediation
Configuration
and Software
Control
Analyze performance
stats to predict
slowdowns,enable
RCA, & avoid outages
ML-based
Anomaly
Detection
Apply proven pre-built
runbooks built by
seasoned admins to
standardize operations
Offered with pay-as-you-grow billing, out-of-box integration with IT apps, SaaS agility and flexibility

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Final Thoughts for NOC and SOC Team Collaboration

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