- [Instructor] Organizations need to have
capabilities to define, build,
orchestrate, manage, and monitor
the different operational processes and workflows.
And this is actually achieved by implementing runbooks
and Runbooks Automation, otherwise known as RBA.
Now, a runbook is a collection of procedures and operations
performed by system administrators, security professionals,
or network operators.
There are different runbooks metrics that can help you
and your organization, to actually be successful.
Things like meantime to repair, or MTTR,
so, how long it's actually taking you to react,
and not only react, but of course mitigate and remediate
a security attack.
Also, you can measure meantime between failures, right?
You can measure things like
meantime to discover a security incident,
how long, actually, does it take you to just discover
that there's a security incident within the organization,
meantime to actually contain
or mitigate the security incident,
as we've actually mentioned before, and automating
the provisioning of IT resources as well.
Now, there are many, different, commercial and open-source,
Runbook Automation solutions in the industry.
An example of a popular, open-source, RBA solution
is Rundeck, and I'm actually showing
the link here is rundeck.org.
You can actually get more information and download
that open-source solution software.
Now, Rundeck can be integrated
with configuration management platform
such as Chef, Puppet and also Ansible.
Now, a commercial RBA
is the Cisco Workload Automation, or CWA,
which can manage different businesses' processes across
a comprehensive set of applications and systems.
You can obtain more information about Cisco CWA
at the link that I'm showing here.