Why You Need to Consider a Next Generation SOAR

These are highly challenging times in Cyber Security. The volume, complexity and sophistication of threats continues to increase at an alarming and exponential rate. Today, manually intensive and repeatable tasks and processes can’t scale, leaving security analysts overwhelmed and fatigued. In some cases, serious threats are potentially overlooked or not handled in a timely fashion; every day that a threat goes undetected can lead to serious risk and repercussions.   

To address these challenges, companies are deploying Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) solutions to combat these overwhelming challenges. The three key elements in a SOAR solution are:

• Orchestration – ingests, consolidates, and intelligently triages alerts from a wide array of disparate tools and technologies onto a single platform
• Automation – automatically handles tasks and processes without the need for analyst intervention; playbooks address lower level repeatable actions
• Response – recommends approaches to incident response, some tasks can be performed automatically, reducing the Mean Time to Response and mitigating security risk

SOAR delivers significant benefits, essentially augmenting analysts with automated workflows to reduce the time spent on repetitive tasks and freeing them to focus on more important complex issues.

The solution is not just for large organizations, even smaller teams struggle with the volume and complexity of threats and their ability to respond. Gartner states that “By year-end 2022, 30% of organizations with a security team larger than five people will leverage SOAR tools in their security operations, up from less than 5% today.”

Next Generation SOAR: Adaptive Intelligence

The SOAR market has emerged as various vendors of other security tools have built or acquired companies to add features from other areas of SOAR from where they first started. As a result, these products have become very complex and costly to deploy, requiring extensive customization and professional services to fit in one’s environment.

As well, while most SOAR solutions today are good at aggregation and correlation of events on the front end, and providing incident response playbooks on the back end, there is still a need to automate the key analysis tasks involved in alert triage, analytical and investigative work, which makes up the bulk of security analysts’ workload.

SOAR + AI = A Game Changer

The Next Generation SOAR platform is an AI Assisted Incident Response platform that coordinates seamlessly with security analysts. Being built from the ground up in the cloud as an integrated SOAR system speeds deployment and eliminates the need for costly and timely integrations.

Applying Adaptive Intelligence enables automated investigation with additional context enrichment and alert patterns, intelligent decision making with prioritization and recommended actions, and automated response with built-in workflows and playbooks.

• Intelligent Analysis – finds the needle in the haystack, reduces noise and false positives, identifies patterns automatically, improves alert triage quality and speed
• Intelligent Insights – a centralized view of alert intelligence with contextual and actionable information, understands processes and generates automated workflows
• Intelligent Recommendations – enables faster, more consistent and more confident responses with 10x faster Mean Time to Resolution

A next generation intelligent SOAR system delivers extensive value, improves the efficiency, efficacy and consistency of threat response and remediation, and better communication and collaboration across teams.

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