Does your organization have a system in place to monitor the usage of IT resources including storage, power, compute, and network bandwidth?

Resource monitoring is essential for detecting anomalies that could indicate security incidents, such as unexpected spikes in network traffic potentially signaling data exfiltration, or unusual compute usage that might indicate cryptomining malware. Effective monitoring also helps with capacity planning, performance optimization, and can provide early warning of resource exhaustion that could lead to service disruptions or denial of service conditions. Evidence could include screenshots of monitoring dashboards (e.g., from tools like Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana, or cloud provider monitoring services), documentation of monitoring thresholds and alerts, or reports showing historical resource usage patterns with annotations for investigated anomalies.