For almost every organization, either large or small-scale, performing incident response is an endless job and to tackle it adequately, most of the organizations are stressed to seek out cybersecurity professionals who have real-world experience within the cyber threat landscape, while attacks from all over the world and cyber crime threats are growing rapidly.
Since attackers exploit a single security weakness to compromise an organization, defenders should monitor the corporate perimeter to safeguard critical assets against such attacks. Further to oppose the defenders, attackers will choose when and whom to strike.
According to Rapid7 reports, even the organizations who have cybersecurity experts are also trying to keep up the business operations safe and secured by mitigation against cyber threats.
It has been observed that an analyst takes a minimum of 75 minutes to investigate, react, and block the attackers behind a cyber-attack for a phishing email; 2-3 hours for Malware detection on average.
In addition, large scale attacks can take several days to investigate, analyze the attack patterns, assist and remediate the detected attack. Due to lack of time and shortage of skilled workforce, not all cases are thoroughly investigated and as a consequence, the security analyst’s response might be ignored when dealing with a parallel incident investigation, leaving the first incident open.
SOAR stands for Security, Orchestration, Automation, and Response; a term which refers to systems that can improve security operations by extracting data and conducting routine or tedious tasks without the need for human intervention, as well as performing analysis from a single central resource, i.e., a SOC which is the Security Operations Center.
SOAR solution enables the organization to collect data from various sources and respond to low-level security incidents without the need for human intervention. It detects and classifies cybersecurity risks and challenges and reacts to low-level security incidents. SOAR’s goal is to make security operations effective and productive.
Security- Security is a collection of techniques, technologies, and procedures that help protect the anonymity, integrity, and access to computers, documents, and information against cyber-attacks or unauthorized access. The primary objective of cyber security is to safeguard all of the company’s assets from both external and internal threats.While organizational assets comprise of information systems, a good and efficient cyber security standard requires intensive effort to integrate all of its data systems and protect them.
Orchestration-Integrates different technologies and interconnects between security tools to enhance incident response capabilities and helps organizations handle complex, frequent cybersecurity incidents. SOAR allows cybersecurity and IT operations solutions to work together and provide a comprehensive view of an organization’s IT infrastructure.
Automation- It provides automated detection and response to decrease the time that takes security teams to locate and handle security incidents and reduce their workload. Security incident response teams can use SOAR to control and automate steps like status checking, decision-making workflow, audits, and enforcement actions.
Automation can facilitate security and mitigating actions such as:
Response-SOAR assists compliance researchers in dealing with cybersecurity issues and improving communication with other departments so that incident reports can be shared and updates can be applied more quickly. SOAR offers dashboards that collect data, allowing security teams to gain visibility into recent events and properly prepare for emerging threats.
Key capabilities offered via SOAR are listed:
Organizations can expect multiple benefits via leveraging SOAR solutions which might transform key security operations to assist SOCs increase efficiency and reduce workloads which include:
SOAR can adapt alerts from a wide range of products and technologies and support multiple security technologies including:
Significance
According to several researched reports, a typical business will gain significant value by integrating SOAR standards into its modelling business via below metrics –
As cybersecurity is an ever-evolving domain and to detect and mitigate rising threats on a daily basis,security solutions are tremendously helpful for almost all sort of organizations these days.
SOAR technology assists analysts in reducing response time to seconds by proven techniques and will detect, prioritize cybersecurity risks and challenges, as well as react to low-level security incidents without manual intervention.
SOAR will add significant value to the existing SIEM solution in enhancing existing capabilities and can lead to performance enhancement with the existing security operations.
References
Author,
Goutham Korepu
Consultant – Managed SOC
Varutra Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
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