Best Practices
90 Day SLASecurity hygiene and defense-in-depth improvements that reduce technical debt, prevent future attacks, and optimize your security operations. These investments pay dividends in reduced MTTR and lower breach probability.
Proactive Security Investment
Organizations that address Tier 3 findings systematically see 40% fewer Tier 1 emergencies. These improvements compound over time, reducing the overall burden on security teams.
Network
Cloud Resource Hardening
Medium effortCIS Benchmark alignment, unnecessary services disabled, secure defaults.
Non-Critical Open Ports
Low effortLow-risk services (FTP, Telnet) that should be disabled or secured.
Network Monitoring Enhancement
Medium effortExtended logging, SIEM integration, behavioral analytics.
Identity & Access Management
RBAC Optimization
Medium effortRole consolidation, permission cleanup, automated provisioning.
Credential Lifecycle Management
High effortAutomated rotation, just-in-time access, privileged session management.
Identity Federation
High effortSSO implementation, centralized identity, reduced password sprawl.
Data Protection
Data Loss Prevention
High effortContent inspection, egress controls, sensitive data monitoring.
Backup Verification
Medium effortRegular restore testing, immutable backups, geographic redundancy.
Database Optimization
Low effortQuery logging, connection pooling, performance hardening.
Processing Protection
Container Security
Medium effortImage scanning, runtime protection, pod security policies.
CI/CD Pipeline Hardening
Medium effortSecret management, artifact signing, dependency scanning.
Infrastructure as Code Security
Low effortPre-commit scanning, drift detection, policy as code.
Prioritization Matrix
Use this matrix to prioritize Tier 3 work based on effort and impact:
Non-critical ports, IaC scanning
RBAC optimization, DLP
Documentation, logging tweaks
Niche hardening, legacy systems