A recently published ESG research ebook, sponsored by Rapid7, SOC Modernization and the Role of XDR, shows that organizations are increasingly leveraging security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) systems in an attempt to keep up with their security operations challenges. This makes sense, as every organization is facing the combined pressure of the growing threat landscape, expanding attack surface, and the cybersecurity skills shortage. To address these challenges, 88% of organizations report that they plan to increase their spending on security operations with the specific goal of better operationalizing threat intelligence, leveraging asset data in their SOC, improving their alert prioritization, and better measuring and improving their KPIs. All of these initiatives fall squarely into the purpose and value of SOAR.
In the same research, ESG also uncovered both praise and challenges for SOAR systems. On the praise side, there is very broad agreement that SOAR tools are effective for automating both complex and basic security operations tasks. But on the challenges side, the same respondents report unexpectedly high complexity and demands on programming and scripting skills that are getting in the way of SOAR-enabled value realization.
The SOC Modernization and the Role of XDR ebook, my years in the security industry, and my last year heavily focused on security operations and SOAR bring to mind five common SOAR myths worth debunking.
Myth #1: SOAR-enabled security automation is about eliminating security analysts
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