If your organization has ever been breached, the odds are pretty good that phishing had something to do with it. According to the Verizon Data Breach Digest, phishing attacks play a role in 92 percent of security breaches today. This means more and more security teams are spending time trying to identify and remediate these attacks. But as the volume of attacks continues to grow alongside the laundry list of other high-priority alerts, it’s difficult to keep up.
As we explain in our recent Security Orchestration and Automation (SOAR) Playbook, repetitive tasks like investigating email senders, detonating attachments, checking URLs, and following up with suspicious requests can often be incorporated into an automated workflow via a SOAR solution. While those tasks are being handled automatically, your team can work on the rest of the investigation and response. It’s efficiency and speed at its finest.
Here are four ways security orchestration and automation tools can streamline the phishing investigation process:
1. Shortening the investigation timeline
Organizations are seeing an increase in user reporting of potential phishing emails (which is great!), but security teams often can’t keep up. SOAR can shorten the time it takes to investigate each alert. When a user hits the ‘report phishing’ button or forwards a suspicious email to a dedic ..
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