InsightConnect Customer Hendrick Automotive Group Benefits from Integrations and Alert Triggers

InsightConnect Customer Hendrick Automotive Group Benefits from Integrations and Alert Triggers

Security teams struggle daily to balance increasing workloads with limited resources, complex ecosystems, and rising cybersecurity threats. Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) solutions like Rapid7 InsightConnect can help those teams accelerate processes and increase efficiency. SOAR refers to software solutions that streamline security operations in three key areas:


Incident response
Security operations automation
Threat and vulnerability management

A valuable feature of InsightConnect is the way it works together with InsightIDR, Rapid7’s security information and event management (SIEM) solution. We spoke with Hendrick Automotive Group’s director of information security, Ben Schoenecker, about his experience with InsightConnect and its connection to InsightIDR. Here are some highlights:


Q: Why choose a SOAR solution?


A: I was at a summit not long ago with all of the large automotive groups. Part of the talk I was giving was about automation. One of the previous presenters said that his organization wasn’t using SOAR because they felt like it wasn’t good for small teams. I went up there the next day and told the opposite story.


I said that we're using security automation because we’re a small team, and it gives us an edge in responding to threats. I think that that's probably one of the primary reasons we're trying to automate things—because we don't have a large team. We can knock out a lot of the low-hanging fruit with automation.


I think that the more you work with automation, the more you go down that rabbit hole. You start realizing more potential. Even if you start with real basic stuff, you start kind of getting deeper into that mindset and finding ..

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