Monitoring and securing CloudOps deployments effectively requires an integrated, multi-layered approach. Start with centralized observability using logs, metrics, and traces to gain real-time visibility into applications, infrastructure, and network activity. Implement dashboards and alerts for key performance, availability, and security indicators, and integrate them with incident management workflows. From a security perspective, enforce strong identity and access management, least-privilege roles, and multi-factor authentication across all environments. Apply configuration baselines via Infrastructure as Code and use security scanners to detect misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and policy violations. Network segmentation, encryption, Web Application Firewalls, and API gateways help protect data and services. Finally, automate patching, remediation, and compliance checks, and regularly review audit trails to continuously improve your security posture.