Security Orchestration
Aggregates alerts from multiple security tools into actionable incidents for automated or manual processing.
🛡️ SOAR: Security Orchestration & Automation Benefits
How SOAR helps improve Incident Response in a world of alert overload.
💥 Alert Overload and the Rise of SOAR
Cyberattacks are increasingly frequent. For example, the US Navy reportedly faces 110,000 cyberattacks per hour.
Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) correlates alerts, automates tasks, and standardizes incident handling, drastically improving SOC efficiency and effectiveness.
The goal of SOAR is to enhance SOC efficiency and ensure rapid, reliable responses to thousands of security alerts.
🎯 The Three Core Components of SOAR
SOAR relies on three key pillars to streamline incident response:
Security Automation
Handles repetitive tasks automatically, reducing the need for manual analyst intervention.
Incident Response
Provides defined processes and tools to quickly and effectively respond to security events.
✨ Nine Key Benefits of SOAR for Incident Response
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1) Faster Response Times
Aggregates related alerts and enables automated responses, significantly reducing incident response times.
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2) Optimized Threat Intelligence
Automatically ingests and correlates threat intelligence with real-time events for actionable insights.
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3) Standardized Processes
Playbooks ensure every incident is handled consistently and efficiently.
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4) Streamlined Operations
Aggregates data, automates low-priority alerts, and limits dwell time for threats.
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5) Reduced Impact of Cyberattacks
Minimizes Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) through context-rich automation.
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6) Easy Integration
Seamlessly connects with SIEMs, endpoint security, cloud security, threat intelligence, and more.
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7) Lower Costs
Reduces operational costs across multiple areas:
Area Savings Reporting 90% Playbook Creation 80% Alert Processing 70% Analyst Training 60% On-Call Management 30% -
8) Automated Reporting
Generate reliable reports on demand or automatically without analyst intervention.