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1. Security Orchestration
Made Simple
Effective Implementation Processes

2. Profile of time & resources of
a typical SOC

3. Introduction
The challenges faced by a security operations center (SOC) are
many and well-documented:
the workload is tremendous, while the workforce is limited,
strained, and ill-equipped to handle the influx of alerts that
constantly bombard their desktops.

4. Security Operations Centers
Often, the biggest problem facing Security Operations Centers
is not an inability to detect security threats, but rather the
methods in which security teams address those threats. With their
reliance on manual processes and disconnected point solutions,
security analysts are overwhelmed by the plethora of alerts they are
expected to triage (both in number and nature of those alerts).

5. Security Orchestration Solution
Security orchestration bridges the gap between alert overload
and analyst capacity. Executed effectively, an orchestration
platform creates the integrated fabric across the security footprint
bringing simplicity, context, and efficiency throughout security
operations and incident response.

6. Building Blocks of Effective Security
Orchestration

7. Effective Security Orchestration
Effective security automation and orchestration requires a
tightly coupled platform that provides robust capabilities across a
multitude of components, each with distinct but important
capabilities. At the end of the day, the effectiveness of
orchestration is only as strong as the weakest link. With a set of
isolated security processes, the entire system can be weighed down
if even just one part is weak or unreliable.

8. Context/Enrichment
Security orchestration is built upon a comprehensive process from
detection through response. To be effective, this process must be
built on context. The underpinning of this relies on enrichment,
clustering, and contextualization leading to prioritized cases fully
enriched to enable rapid triage.

9. Security Operations Customer
Survey

10. Workflow
Defined playbooks span the entire security operations landscape.
With so much of the response process residing solely in the minds
and personal preference of individual analysts, the need to define,
document, standardize and execute workflows to drive
consistency is essential.

11. Automation
Security Automation refers to the process of executing IR
workflow without human intervention. The list of individual
processes that can be automated is growing. And effective
automation simplifies routine tasks to execute them with far more
efficiency. Yet, even the most advanced automation systems filter
only a percentage of security alerts that register on a company’s
network.

12. Case Management
Effective case management provides visibility on the status of all
types of cases and ensure that critical cases are not overlooked. It
also allows security cases to interlock with broader IT and
operational needs within the company.

13. Visualization
Many triage and determination decisions require human
intervention. Properly armed analysts should be able to assess the
severity of a case in seconds. Through a graph structure and
representation, analysts are able to visualize the entire threat
storyline to accelerate decision making, escalation, and
investigation where needed.

14. KPI / Business Intelligence
It is important to manage the complete security operations; ergo
you need to measure the performance of people, process, and
technologies. Analysts and SOC management must have visibility
to critical KPI’s, where resources are spent and access to data-
driven dashboards to measure critical data points throughout
Security Operations.

15. Conclusion
Effective Security Orchestration needs to encompass security
operations processes from end to end; gathering data from
multiple security controls, consolidating the relevant data for
security analysts to make the appropriate determination of the
case with necessary context, executing the incident response flow
with appropriate automation and/or human intervention, and
ongoing visibility and situational awareness.