The document discusses the importance of Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms in combatting cybersecurity issues. It highlights SOAR's role in automating incident response processes, thereby improving efficiency, reducing manual operations, and integrating with various technologies to streamline security operations. It also contrasts SOAR with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, emphasizing SOAR's ability to prioritize and manage alerts more effectively.

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SOAR stands for Security Orchestration, Automation, and
Response. SOAR is extremely important for any
organization to fight any cybersecurity issues in an
organization. This can be achieved through the following
processes :
1. Orchestration is a process that shows alerts from the network and security and
converts them into actionable items that can be handled manually.
2. Automation reduces the need for humans to deal with redundant alerts and tasks
that can instead be computerized.
1. Incident response is a workflow of steps and technologies which helps to resolve
the incident.
SOAR platforms then use a combination of ML (Machine Learning) and humans to
analyze diverse data in order to prioritize and comprehend incident response actions.
The technology can be used to automate about 70-80% of a security team’s manual
tasks.
SOAR Platform Gartner: Magic Quadrant
Gartner Inc., the consulting firm focused on identifying the best technological solutions
for their clients. They created a quadrant for those who want to identify the best SOAR
platforms for their organizations. Although Gartner claims that there is no true SOAR
solution that exists today, it does expect usage to grow significantly in the coming
years.
Two axes have been identified: “Ability to execute” (which focuses on the current
feature-set of the product) and “Completeness of vision” (which prioritizes market
understanding and strategy).
Then, as per Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, SOAR platform vendors are divided into four
quadrants:
Leaders : offer ready-to-adopt services based on current market trends.
Challengers : offer some features based on market trends, with the potential to
grow.
Visionaries : those who are investing heavily in unique technologies for the future
Niche players : specialists in their own regions, lack a comprehensive set of
solutions.
Difference between SOAR and SIEM.
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2. Security Information and Event Management also known as SIEM is the collection and
aggregation of security data. This data is sourced from integrated platforms like
firewalls, network appliances, intrusion detection and prevention systems, etc. Later, the
data is correlated across devices, before issuing alerts. To deal with the alerts is a
difficult, time-consuming process, which further wastes resources and manpower.
On the other hand, SOAR can automate the response process by responding to the
endless alerts. By prioritizing alerts, cybersecurity teams are able to prioritize threats
and deliver solid results. SOAR solution takes SIEM’s response capabilities to the next
level by offering automated responses to all cybersecurity solutions.
Respond to security incidents with efficiency
Choosing the right SOAR platform can give you the right way to respond to security
incidents with efficiency. Here are the top ways a good SOAR platform can help you out
:
1) Faster Response Time
Since orchestration can merge multiple alerts into a single window, it saves even more
time for teams by enabling the system to respond to alerts with no human intervention.
To get a faster and more efficient alert handling process, the decision-making process
should be automated, which the SOAR platform that you pick must allow.
2) Optimized Threat Intelligence
Threat intelligence provides crucial information that requires a more cautionary
approach. However, on a day-to-day basis, not much attention is given to these.
Analysts are constantly dealing with overloaded information.
The best SOAR vendors will automatically correlate these with events in real-time and
should ingest threat intelligence with in-depth analyses. This will help the SOC analysts
team and provide immediately actionable information to incident response teams.
3) Reduced Manual Operations & Standardized
Processes
Automation relieves SOC analysts of mundane and redundant tasks and includes them
in an overall process of how to handle any situation that comes their way.
A good SOAR platform will include these tasks into playbooks that layout the end-to-
end incident response workflow.
4) Streamlined Operations
Every single element of a SOAR tool should aid in the streamlining of security
operations since that is their primary function. Security orchestration collects data
incoming from a variety of sources.
Automation will be able to handle low-priority alerts through the use of automated
playbooks, since incident response takes the heat-of-the-moment guesswork out of the
picture, thereby limiting cyberattacks to a great extent and reducing the overall impact
on the business.
5) Reduced cyberattack impact (MTTD and
MTTR)
Mean Time To Detect a problem (MTTD) and Mean Time To Respond to it (MTTR) are
two critical metrics that affect the impact that a cyberattack has on an organization.
The more time it takes to detect and respond to an attack, the more chances of damage
to the same, and the greater the impact on the organization.
The SOAR vendor and platform you pick should minimize both MTTD and MTTR.
Orchestration reduces MTTD by providing context-heavy details on each incident,
helping analysts to spend less time on requirement gathering and more time on
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3. investigating the alert. Security automation reduces MTTR by answering incidents and
alerts automatically in real-time.
6) Easy technology & tools integration
One of the advantages of orchestration is the ability to correlate alerts from a wide
variety of technologies and products. This goes well beyond just SIEM. A SOAR tool
should be able to integrate with different products across security technologies, such
as:
1. Cloud Security
2. Data Enrichment
3. Email Security
4. Endpoint Security
5. Forensics & Malware Analysis
6. Identity and Access Management
7. IT and Infrastructure
8. Network Security
9. SIEM & Log Management
10. Threat Intelligence
11. Vulnerability & Risk Management
The integration of these products into your SOAR platform through the correct vendor
should be a seamless process.
A SOAR platform open-source marketplace helps to access the integration for a specific
product. From there, integration is as easy as clicking a button and swapping
components into a playbook.
7) Lowered costs
A business model can save a significant amount of money and time by integrating the
SOAR tool into their respective business model. It is proven that a SOAR platform helps
save:
1. 90% time on reporting
2. 80% time on playbook creation
3. 70% time on alert handling
4. 60% time on analyst training
5. 30% time on shift management
8) Automated reporting & metrics capabilities
Automated reporting eliminates the need for manually-produced metrics and makes life
much easier.
By allowing SOC staff to pull reports on-demand, preferably with one click or
automatically on a schedule, businesses receive timely and reliable metrics for each
reporting period.
To further simplify this process, most SOAR tools provide reporting templates and the
ability to generate custom reports efficiently.
9) Standardized communication during incident
response
Response and incident handling will require reaching outside of the SOC, especially for
high-priority incidents. This means incident response teams loop in stakeholders both
outside and inside the SOC, making a repeatable and reliable flow of information
challenging to establish.
To mitigate this issue, organizations often form a mission control hub to handle high
priority incidents. A good SOAR platform will have a virtual war room feature to ensure
that critical communication is standardized to prevent any team member—from HR and
PR to legal—from missing highly critical information during an incident response.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Which are the best open-source SOAR platform vendors?
Ans. The top SOAR platform vendors are :
Exabeam
Securaa
Insight Connect
RespondX
IBM
SIRP
DFLabs
Splunk Phantom
Who is a SOC analyst?
A security operations centre (SOC) analyst is a cybersecurity staff member who is
responsible for monitoring and fighting threats to an organization’s IT infrastructure.
How can SOAR Tools transform your incident response?
Ans. SOAR platforms can help by relieving the information overload on SOC analysts
from remedial and low-priority tasks. Instead it allows the team to focus on improving
your SOC’s overall effectiveness and efficiency in responding to incidents recorded.
What are the different use cases of SOAR?
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