So if you want to unify automation approach to your security,
you need to integrate Ansible Tower with your existing security technologies.
For firewall integration,
the role of automation can speed up policy and log configuration changes.
You can add an allow list entry to your firewall configuration to
allow traffic from a certain machine to another.
You could then have a playbook that first adds a source
and additional IP address as variables.
Then when the source and destination objects are defined,
you could create an access rule between those objects.
And all of this can be done with automation.
For intrusion detection and prevention,
Ansible Tower can simplify the rule and log management.
Automation can be used to manage these rules and the roles offered.
Ansible Tower can streamline the rotation and
management of privilege credentials.
So we can streamline credential management, which is really hard to do manually.
For endpoint protection,
automation can simplify common endpoint management tasks.
Here we can integrate into endpoint protection systems
and provide event‑driven detection, quarantine,
and remediation.
So just before we finish up this module,
let's address some of the key security use cases that automation can help with.
Here we can apply custom security policies to your infrastructure,
all of which can be done based on a trigger such as a scan.
Automation allows you to gather information across your entire security systems.
As a result, you can quickly assess and respond to alerts and incidents.
We can programmatically collect logs across firewalls,
intrusion detection systems, and other security systems,
enabling on‑demand enrichment of triage activities.
For threat hunting,
Ansible Tower can automatically create new IDPS rules to
investigate the origin of viral rule violation and allow list those
IP addresses to be recognized as nonthreats.
Here we can automatically tune the level of login and create
new IDS rules and new firewall policies,
facilitate the detection of more threats in less time.
So automation helps you react faster by codifying actions
into repeatable pre‑approved playbooks.
So you can speed up tasks like blocking attacking IP addresses or
domains and then allowing nonthreatening traffic through.
For incident response,
Tower can automatically validate a threat by verifying an IDS rule.
It can automatically trigger a remediation from a SIEM
solution and create new enterprise firewall rules to deny
list a source of any attack.
For detection and triage of suspicious activities,
Ansible can automatically enable logging or increase log verbosity
across your enterprise firewalls or IDS solutions to enrich the
alerts the SIEM receives for easier triage.
So in this module,
we addressed the key components in more detail that
make up your automation journey.
This includes projects, templates, credentials, and inventories.
We looked at these at a more advanced level and examined
some of their configuration options.
Workflow templates are a big plus to Tower,
and we addressed how you can daisy chain and breakdown advanced use
cases from multiple teams into one atomic unit.
Finally,
we addressed how Tower users can assist in the most advanced security use case.
So remember that Tower's a platform that can sit and be placed in
the middle of your security infrastructure and assist with
automation across all of your security devices,
including your firewalls.
There were two demos in this module.
We firstly address GitHub integration and the use of personal access tokens.
Then there was a demo on advanced inventory setup.