The problems of talent crunch and labor shortage faced by SOCs need a solution, and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) promises to be just that. SOAR revolutionizes the overall SOC processes by bridging the gap for understaffed security teams while improving their productivity. With SOAR, organizations can automate threat intelligence sharing, hunting, response, and other security operations in an end-to-end manner, eliminating manual efforts required to perform these processes Here’s a look at how it delivers a better security operation:
SOAR Automates Daily Mundane Tasks
A modern-day SOAR platform helps automate a lot of mundane tasks usually undertaken by SOCs, thereby enabling leaner security teams with capabilities to focus and prioritize other tasks that need immediate attention. While security orchestration helps collect data from disparate sources, security automation assists in the execution of responses and actions to alerts and incidents by using automated playbooks. This ensures that security operations and processes are handled more efficiently and organizations can bolster their productivity and capacity to address more incidents without hiring more security personnel. By automating mundane, repetitive, and time-consuming tasks, SOAR also eliminates fatigue and lets the analyst do more in less time.
SOAR Allows You to Do More with Less
Scalable security automation is the need of the hour. With the changing needs of security teams, a cost-effective vendor-agnostic SOAR platform helps an organization build automated, cross-functional workflows that can orchestrate security and response actions across cloud-based, on-premise, or hybrid infrastructure. With a vendor-agnostic SOAR platform, organizations can seamlessly integrate disparate deployed security tools and technologies, without having to worry about data orchestration issues. This enables the SecOps team to gain a holistic view of the cybersecurity environment and accelerate their threat response actions. Nowadays, organizations have started adopting low code security automation platforms to automate security operations. This empowers security teams of all sizes to quickly build their customized workflows with little knowledge of coding skills.
SOAR Improves ROI
A comprehensive SOAR platform also helps realize better return on investment (ROI) as it improves scalability and efficiency of security workflows by automating and streamlining the detection, investigation, analysis, and actioning of threats while significantly reducing the scope of human error. Modern SOAR platforms improve the visibility and productivity of security teams by centralizing the entire detection, analysis, and response workflow from a single console. In a way, the team gets rid of tedious and disjointed manual workflows involving different security tools. As diverse incidents and threats are managed on a single platform, SOAR improves threat management in security teams by removing false positives and noise and connects the dots between external threat intelligence, internal threat intelligence, and suspicious incidents to proactively identify, triage, and mitigate threats. By remediating security threats in real-time, SOAR helps organizations to reduce both Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) and the overall dwell time of an attack.