Understaffed security teams need all the help they can get, and they are finding that help through SOAR.
SOAR — security orchestration, automation and response — is defined by Gartner as the “technologies that enable organizations to collect inputs monitored by the security operations team.” Gartner identifies a SOAR platform’s three prime functionalities: Threat and vulnerability management, security operations automation and incident response.
The number of threats coming across the network and endpoints each day overwhelms most organizations. Adding SOAR technology strengthens your overall security posture by automating the most repetitive and tedious aspects of threat management and incident response.
The Role of Each Component
The efficiency of SOAR’s security operation comes from each of its components. Collectively, SOAR automates the most mundane and time-consuming tasks in a Security Operations Center (SOC) — tasks that are absolutely necessary to ensure the highest levels of protection for networks and data, but also tasks that take already overworked security teams from their other duties. Understanding how each piece of the SOAR platform operates will help organizations build the solution that works best for them.
Orchestration connects and simplifies all of the security tools and systems within the infrastructure. It integrates custom-built applications with built-in security tools, so they all work with each other seamlessly. In addition, it connects disparate endpoints, firewalls and behavior analytics. While all this connectivity means more alerts, it also improves the ability to detect potential threats before they become full-blown incidents.
Automation affects security procedures across the SOC. Security automation takes the vast amount of information generated through orchestration and analyzes it through machine ..
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