Today, security operations center teams face dual challenges of acquiring both the right caliber and quantity of staff.
With this gap, it's important for SOC teams to consider security, orchestration, automation and response solutions to automate repetitive tasks and optimize incident response processes.
Beyond the staffing shortage, security operations teams are also dealing with serious resource constraints.
Security teams must determine which alarms are real and which are false positives.
Given security operations resource constraints combined with the increasing threat volume, organizations have not invested enough in automation and response - a missed opportunity to profoundly reduce triage, threat investigation, and incident response times.
Security orchestration, automation and response capabilities are critical in collapsing the time to investigate and respond to a threat.
Rather than struggle to hire more and good-enough team members, take a more practical approach to what your current staff can do from an end-to-end threat management perspective.
Ideally, you would take a holistic threat analytics approach that would allow your team to detect threats across the full Cyber Attack Lifecycle - from Reconnaissance through Exfiltration.
Once you've implemented a thorough threat management process and realized success across a collection of threat detection use cases, you'll be comfortable that your team is better protecting what is most important to the business.
You'll also better understand the capacity of your security team.
A security orchestration, automation, and response solution helps a security operations team realize a quick ROI by providing technology and automated response workflows that accelerate threat qualification and investigation capabilities.
Integrated playbooks offer standard procedures and access to automation within the natural workflow of the security operations team.
If the security operations team is going to impact change via automated responses, the team must ensure it is done safely and under appropriate governance.
Making sure not only your team, but also your IT organization, has confidence in your SOAR platform to automate these actions in a responsible way is critical.
LogRhythm SmartResponse™ automates tasks for streamlined efficiency across the security response workflow, automating response workflows help empower your SOC team to accomplish more and reduce the time it takes to protect against evolving security threats.
With LogRhythm SmartResponse™, you have the power to decide what actions you want to automate so your team can focus on more complex incident response that requires skill and creativity.
Because automation affects changes in the IT environment, buy-in from IT stakeholders is critical because the security team is now mandating IT-level changes.
The right SOAR solution will help streamline your security operations' team's ability to detect and respond to threats faster, and quantify key performance indicators like mean time to detect and mean time to respond.
SOAR can be a valuable tool that empowers your team to focus on the more important work, without getting bogged down in the manual and menial.
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This Cyber News was published on securityboulevard.com. Publication date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 09:43:06 +0000