Strengthening Security and Compliance with Edge Delta

Overview

Security telemetry rarely lives in one place. Logs arrive from cloud infrastructure, SaaS platforms, and on-prem deployments, and each stream may blend security events with data that DevOps, SRE, IT, or support teams still need. Some records include regulated fields—PII, credentials, customer identifiers—while others do not, yet they travel together. Edge Delta provides an OCSF-aligned foundation so these mixed flows stay consistent even as they move between zones. Telemetry and Security Data Pipelines let you filter, reshape, and route data before it heads downstream, improving the quality of SIEM and SOAR alerts while keeping each stakeholder informed.

Localized masking and hashing keep sensitive attributes inside trusted boundaries to meet GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, and internal policy requirements. Built-in encryption in transit and at rest, audit logging, and role-based access control (RBAC) anchor governance efforts. Edge Delta maintains a SOC 2 Type II posture and supports regulatory reviews with traceable configuration history.

When investigations escalate, the Security Engineer teammate can draw from these same pipelines to summarize findings and coordinate with humans on next steps, ensuring approvals stay with the right people.

See how these controls are deployed across the platform in the Edge Delta Architecture overview.

Pipeline Privacy

By leveraging Edge Delta’s Security Data Pipelines, teams can implement a privacy-first security data management solution that ensures sensitive fields like PII, credentials, and internal secrets are handled appropriately before being sent downstream. These capabilities help:

• Reduce compliance risk: Automatically redact or anonymize sensitive fields before they leave secure environments.
• Improve audit readiness: Route a full copy of raw data to cost-effective archival storage for future auditing purposes.
• Strengthen operational trust: Avoid accidental data exposure and support data governance initiatives.

Implement field-level protections step by step with the EDXEncrypt and EDXDecrypt guide.

Best Practices for Privacy-Aware Pipelines

• Intelligent masking and filtering: Leverage Edge Delta’s intelligent processing recommendations to identify and redact sensitive data like user IDs, emails, IPs, or access tokens with the click of a button.
• Enforce role-based access: Apply RBAC to ensure only authorized teams can access sensitive telemetry data or modify pipeline logic.
• Continuously review policies: Update masking rules to align with evolving regulations and data models.

With Edge Delta, privacy isn’t an afterthought, it’s a core principle built directly into our pipelines. This proactive approach reduces overhead, builds trust, and ensures teams can derive value from their data without compromising on compliance.

For additional governance patterns, review the Configuration Overview playbook.

Security Data Pipeline Use Cases

Edge Delta’s Security Data Pipelines provide several key benefits for security teams looking to improve threat visibility and reduce downstream costs. Explore how the Security Engineer and other specialists operationalize these workflows in the AI Team Specialized Teammates guide.

Normalize and Correlate

Bring structure to raw security data by normalizing it onto open-source standards like OCSF. Standardized telemetry data supports efficient downstream monitoring and analysis workflows, reduces blind spots, and enhances security posture.

See a hands-on example in the Pipeline Quickstart: Normalize Severity walkthrough.

Strengthen Compliance

Protect sensitive data by masking or filtering regulated fields before they leave trusted environments. With localized processing, you maintain compliance while retaining actionable visibility. Pair those controls with adaptive retention policies, so high-value fields reach downstream tooling while archival copies stay in lower-cost storage for audit needs.

Enrich Security Signals

Augment incoming logs with relevant security context using GeoIP lookups, threat intelligence feeds, and custom enrichment tables. Live Capture shows how these enrichments play out against real traffic, giving you confidence that masking rules and routing decisions are correct before you scale them. Learn how to manage enrichment datasets in the Use Lookup Tables guide.

Detect and Respond Faster

Surface anomalies and high-risk behavior in real time. Edge Delta leverages pattern recognition across logs, metrics, and events to flag threats early, empowering faster triage and automated response. When an investigation requires broader context, AI Team specialists can gather the relevant telemetry and document what has been masked or retained before handing decisions back to responders.

Tier and Route with Precision

Route enriched data to the right destinations based on content, risk profile, or retention policy. Whether streaming to a SIEM or data lake, forwarding to archival storage, or enabling real-time dashboards, pipelines can be easily tuned to fit your security architecture. Explore destination-specific setup steps in the Destinations catalog.

Safeguard Pipeline Deployments

Leverage built-in pipeline packs for log sources like CloudTrail, Palo Alto, Cisco, and FortiGate to help accelerate deployments and ensure consistency across environments. Packs can separate read and write operations or isolate high-risk traffic so each audience receives only what it needs, reducing both cost and exposure. Use RBAC to protect sensitive data and reduce misconfiguration risk. Follow design guardrails from the Effective Pipeline Design tutorial to harden deployments, and rely on Live Capture to validate changes before they affect production investigations.

Audit and Configuration Management

Configuration Audit Trail

Edge Delta maintains comprehensive audit logs for all configuration changes including:

• Pipeline configuration updates
• Processor node additions and deletions
• Destination modifications
• Sampling policy changes
• Access control updates

Change history tracks who made the change, what was changed (with diff view), when the change occurred, why the change was made (commit message), and deployment status with rollback options.

CI/CD Integration

Edge Delta integrates seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines to enable Configuration as Code and Monitoring as Code. Pipeline configurations can be stored in Git with a directory structure like:

• pipeline-configs/production/
• pipeline-configs/staging/
• pipeline-configs/tests/

This approach provides:

• Version control with complete history of configuration changes
• Code review before production deployment
• Automated testing to validate configurations before deployment
• Rollback capability to instantly revert to previous versions
• Compliance through audit trails for regulatory requirements

Learn more: Mastering CI/CD Monitoring

Compliance and Governance

Edge Delta supports compliance requirements including:

• Data residency: Control where data is processed and stored
• Retention policies: Enforce data retention rules
• Access controls: Role-based access to configurations
• Encryption: In-transit and at-rest
• Audit logging: Complete audit trail for compliance audits

Example compliance use cases:

Security Best Practices

Protect your telemetry infrastructure and data:

Least Privilege Access

• Limit who can modify configurations
• Use role-based access control
• Audit access regularly

Secrets Management

• Never commit credentials to Git
• Use secret stores like Vault or AWS Secrets Manager
• Rotate credentials regularly

Data Protection

• Mask PII at collection time
• Encrypt data in transit
• Enforce data retention policies

Related Documentation

• EDXEncrypt and EDXDecrypt - Field-level encryption
• Pipeline Settings - Configuration options
• Edge Delta Architecture - Platform overview
• Monitoring and Visibility - Track pipeline health