As organizations around the world face a constant and dynamic barrage of cybersecurity threats, the development of Security Orchestration tools to accelerate security operations, automation and response have rapidly increased.

The Security Orchestration tools provide more visibility that allows organizations to respond to security events faster, efficiently, and consistently.

Security Orchestration tools are designed for the following functions:

• Security orchestration connects and coordinates toolsets and defines incident analysis parameters and processes.

• Automation automatically triggers specific workflows and tasks based on those parameters, including automated steps for lower-risk incidents.

• Response accelerates general and targeted responses by enabling a single view for analysts to access, query and share threat intelligence.

What do you think an ideal SOAR tool should do?

Here are the following points to remember :

• Ingest and analyze information and alerts from various security systems.

• Have the ability to define, build and automate workflows that the teams require to identify, prioritize, investigate and respond to the security alerts.

• Orchestrate and integrate with a broad range of tools to improve operations.

• Have forensic capabilities to perform post-incident analysis and enable teams to improve their processes and prevent similar issues.

• Automates most of the security operations hence eliminating repetitive tasks and allowing teams to save time and concentrate on more complex tasks that require human input.

Additionally, most of the SOAR solutions have playbooks that provide instructions based on proven practices and procedures

Let’s dive deeper into SOAR:

SOAR stands for Security Orchestration, Automation and Response. SOAR platforms are a collection of security software outcomes and tools for examining and collecting data from a range of sources.

SOAR solutions use a combination of human and machine learning to analyze this diverse data in order to comprehend and prioritize incident response actions.

SOAR is designed to help security teams manage and respond to endless alarms at machine speeds.

SOAR platforms take things a step further by:

• Combining comprehensive data gathering,

• Case management

• Standardization

• Workflow, and

• Analytics

to provide organizations with the ability to implement in-depth capabilities.

Benefits of using SOAR tools:

Though adoption success may vary depending on the organization, security leaders can expect the following benefits of SOAR implementation:

• improved productivity;

• less tedious and repetitive work for humans;

• more strategic allocation for human analysts;

• process and operational efficiencies in alerts and triage;

• Faster incident response and remediation;

• centralized and coordinated multivendor security tools and analytics; and

• increased resilience against the growing threat landscape.

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response with Securaa:

Securaa is a security orchestration, automation, and response solution that enables your team to accelerate and streamline time-intensive processes without writing a single line of code.