Monad Community Bytes - November 2024

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Monad Community Bytes - November 🦃

Welcome to the November edition of Monad Community Bytes! Holidays are in full swing so Happy Thanksgiving if you celebrate and if you don't, we hope you're able to enjoy quality downtime with your loved ones!

Product Updates 🎉

A bit over a month ago, we opened up the new version of Monad in private beta and the feedback we've received has helped fuel even more innovation🔥

We've recently rolled out:

Ability to manage data routing rules via JSON
Support for GitHub Audit Logs, Sumo Logic, and Google Cloud Audit Logs
Manage data transformations using JQ
Bulk input creation for multiple inputs from the same vendor
And so much more!

If you're interested in trying Monad out or would like a demo, reach out to us at product@monad.com!

New Blog🚨: Data Transformation in Cybersecurity

We recently launched Part 4 of our Data Engineering for Cybersecurity blog series which focused on Data Transformation and it's role in reducing alert fatigue, enabling vulnerability prioritization, and ultimately, making security data management simpler.

In this installment, we covered:

Common transformation types such as filtering, flattening, and mutating
In-flight v. in-store transformation
Why data transformation should be a core piece for most security functions

Check it out here!

New Analyst Research: Data Pipeline Management

There are many factors that have recently led to security teams buying Data Pipeline Management (DPM) solutions including SIEM migrations, reducing SIEM ingest costs, transforming data to filter out noise, freeing up engineering time, and everything in between.

This post by Allie Mellen over at Forrester does a great job of explaining why security-specific DPM tools, like Monad, are emerging as a foundation technology for enabling better security workflows.

Read the full post here!

OCSF Joins The Linux Foundation 🎉

If you're receiving this, you've probably heard about the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) at least once in your life time and possibly even here on Monad Community Bytes. However, if you're not familiar with OCSF, it is a project aims to standardize security data into a common schema. You can learn more about it here.

OCSF was created in 2022 and just recently joined The Linux Foundation which is a major achievement. With support from this legendary group, the OCSF project will get a boost in support, contributors, reputability, and guidance on how to scale into becoming the go-to security data schema framework. Kudos to all of the OCSF contributors and maintainers! 👏🏽

Read the full post here!

Join Our Slack Community!

If you’re a security practitioner working with data pipelines, log parsers, or detection and response, join our exclusive Slack community by messaging us at community@monad.com!