This is the second in a series of blog posts by the ONUG Collaborative AI-Driven NOC/SOC Automation project team, which is delving into Generative AI (GenAI) use cases for streamlining and automating NOC/SOC workflows. Here we describe several different approaches for adopting GenAI-enabled applications and tools and conclude by considering the benefits and challenges of each approach. AI is playing an increasingly important role in network and security operations. The use of machine learning to analyze and derive actionable intelligence from large volumes of operational…
IT Design Patterns Needed – Now More Than Ever Over the past decade, successive waves of technology innovation have resulted in complex IT infrastructure that is problematic to manage and secure. Given the myriad of challenges and the extraordinary level of complexity that IT networking, cloud and security operations professionals are grappling with today, the need for new design patterns has never been more acute. Cutting through all this complexity and converging on innovative, trusted design patterns is no mean feat, but ONUG is uniquely…
Project team plans additional Cloud Security Notification Framework enhancements that will extend the power of CSNF to simplify multi-cloud security analytics BOSTON, May 6, 2024 – ONUG, the leading advocate for the Global 2000 community of IT professionals, today announced that the ONUG Collaborative Cloud Security Notification Framework (CSNF) project team has mapped Fortinet FortiGate log messages into CSNF’s canonical data model for cloud security notifications. This is the first in a series of planned enhancements that will extend the power of CSNF to reduce…
The ONUG Collaborative NaaS Project is exploring the business requirements, leading use cases and underlying technologies critical for the adoption of Network-as-a-Service by large enterprises. This is the first in a series of blog posts on this topic that the project team is publishing. Where NaaS differs from previous network and cloud-centric architectures and offerings such as SASE and SSE is that the focus is switched to the business, performance and application dynamics of today’s organizations. This is, after all, what technology must serve. It…
Generative AI is Accelerating AI Adoption Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly evolving and beginning to transform IT operations with expanding use cases that offer efficiency to labor-intensive network operations, particularly in Network Operations Centers (NOC) and Security Operations Centers (SOC). The recently formed ONUG Collaborative AI-Driven NOC/SOC Automation Project is exploring this evolution and its implications in this first of a series of blog posts on the topic. Over the past several years AIOps has become a buzzword that vendors use to offer the promise…
The “Cloud Security Notification Framework” (CSNF) is an open-source initiative launched by the ONUG Collaborative in 2021 to address a vexing challenge in cloud computing today: how to respond effectively to the disparate and growing array of security-related alarms and notifications generated in multi-cloud operational contexts encompassing public cloud services and private cloud infrastructure. Large-scale enterprise hybrid multi-cloud environments typically feature workloads deployed across a multitude of cloud services and on-premise systems, each generating its own set of alarm and event notifications that are collected,…