How SMBs Can Decrease Vulnerabilities and Incident Response Time with Automation

How SMBs Can Decrease Vulnerabilities and Incident Response Time with Automation

Security automation is a major buzzword across enterprise organizations, and for good reason. Automating manual tasks can free up time and resources for people to do more valuable, creative work.


But it’s not just enterprises that are finding the value in automation. Small businesses and organizations with small budgets are turning to automation to streamline manual and repetitive tasks. In fact, small businesses stand to benefit just as much as large ones because they have even fewer resources to address the same number of tasks.


Start with security automation


One of the first places that both enterprise organizations and small- to medium-sized businesses can hone in on for automation is security through the use of a security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) solution like InsightConnect. This is particularly important as security personnel are increasingly tasked with work that is more administrative or reactive. For instance, threat detection and response (one of the main reasons organizations create security teams in the first place) can be faster and more thorough through automation.


The following are a few of the [best processes organizations should start with when automating security.


Monitoring and detection
Data enrichment
Incident response
User permissions
Business continuity

Reduce risk through automated threat hunting


Threat hunting is one of the most time-consuming tasks that a security team has on its plate. Those doing the hunting need to be highly proficient in technical skills in order to identify threats. By
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