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Security automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Overview
Protecting IT from security threats and limiting costly downtime is a priority for every enterprise, but this challenge is only becoming more complex. IT operations and security teams need to maintain secure environments that include a wide range of tools and services—often from different vendors—and AI has introduced new security considerations.
Automation can help operations teams streamline security tasks, maintain compliance, and efficiently remediate issues without manual intervention. Whether the goal is controlling and managing risk, staying up to date on CVEs, orchestrating and hardening new services, or creating audit reports, automation accelerates security processes while reducing the possibility of human error.
With Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform, you can coordinate tasks across teams and solutions to build a more efficient approach to security operations. Using sharable Ansible Playbooks, local directory services, consolidated logs, and supported certified content, you can automatically identify and respond to threats—and use Policy as Code to build compliance into automation from the start.
Features and benefits
Enforce security and compliance
Use a single source of truth to align to security and compliance policies. Automate security testing and include security steps in a provisioning process. Use policy enforcement to control what automation can do across technologies.
Automate security enrollments
Enroll new solutions and technologies in security monitoring and identity management systems to ensure applications and underlying systems are consistently monitored across your environment.
Gather and audit inventories
Automate inventory gathering and dynamically filter for desired characteristics. Use automation to enforce compliant, patched configurations and automate the creation of audit reports.
Automatically respond to issues
Use Event-Driven Ansible to automatically respond to issues and risks, including shutting down a technology while you investigate—or create notifications and tickets as desired.
Automate penetration testing and hardening
Automate test environment provisioning and task execution. Build automated workflows and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines. Automate reporting.
Enforce cloud hygiene
Automatically detect improper or missing information—like a tag—and take the appropriate action, such as generating a report, creating a service ticket, and/or gathering facts.
Red Hat named the leader in infrastructure automation platforms
Forrester Research named Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform the leader in The Forrester WaveTM: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q4, 2024—with the highest score in the strategy category.
Customer success stories
Kreditplus adopted Ansible Automation Platform and other Red Hat products to build a security-driven environment that has cut costs, accelerated development, and helped operations teams work more efficiently.
Agile Defense built a custom tool on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to help customers within the U.S. Department of Defense keep their systems more secure and compliant.
CyberArk used Ansible Automation Platform to standardize security management and build a more resilient, robust security posture across their enterprise.
Keep learning
Article
What is security automation?
Learn the basics of how security automation works and discover how it can benefit your organization.
Documentation
5 examples of security automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Explores 5 common security use cases that can be automated—and the code behind the processes.
Guide
Start automating these IT tasks
Explore resources and get expert advice about ITOps areas you can automate now.
