Platform Best Practices

Best practices for ThreatWorx Platform are as below:

  • Sign-up / Authentication / SSO
    • Enable user white listing for sign-ups.
    • Configure Single Sign On with your Enterprise Identity Provider.
    • Fine tune “Idle Session Timeout” based on your organization policies.
  • Access Control
    • Grant appropriate role (Discoverer, Administrator) to appropriate users.
    • Setup Tag Based Access control for standard users.
    • Ensure proper tagging of assets during discovery itself.
    • Follow “Least Privilege” principle while grant access to users.
  • Alerting
    • Configure appropriate alerts to ensure security events are relayed to relevant teams in the organizations.
  • Policies
    • Setup policy to auto remove stale aged assets via “Asset Purge” policy.
    • Setup policy to auto remove older reports via “Report Purge” policy.
    • Setup CI/CD polices in ThreatWorx platform and integrate these in your CI/CD pipelines.
  • Reporting
    • Configure scheduled reports to ensure that relevant teams and stakeholders are kept in the loop.
  • Discovery Tracking
    • Ensure that you monitor discovery runs periodically to track any non-operational issues. Keep a watch on the “Bell” notification icon at the top right of the page.