The LinkedIn Cloud Security Operations team needed a DevSecOps solution to implement various security policies in an automated way and at scale to their fast growing Azure cloud infrastructure.
Microsoft owned LinkedIn Corporation leads a diversified business in the professional world providing various learning, marketing, sales and recruitment solutions. Linkedin.com is one of them and is the world's largest professional network with nearly 800 million members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.
LinkedIn’s Azure Cloud infrastructure is growing rapidly with more than 150k resources across multiple Azure Tenants in just 3 years. Various different teams were using various different custom automation tools for provisioning their own infrastructure on Azure. To meet the Cloud security standards, the company’s Information Security team was using Azure Security Policies to allow a secure and standardized way of provisioning resources. At such a huge scale, with that kind of growth rate of resources, and with growing number of Azure policies, it was required to have a solution to manage Azure policies at scale.
Crest Data Systems built various automated workflows using Azure DevOps based CICD pipelines for the LinkedIn Information Security Team
To help visualize the security posture of their Azure Infrastructure, Crest Data Systems used the data collected from Azure Tenants to build various PowerBI dashboards for use cases like
The automated workflows and visualizations of Azure Infrastructure implemented by Crest helped LinkedIn Information Security team to:
