Automation has benefited many business areas hugely, and its impact on businesses is not showing any signs of stopping soon.
More businesses have been integrating new automation solutions or getting introduced to automation for the first time every new year, and after the pandemic, this acceleration was even boosted to all-new levels.
While automation can impact accounting, marketing, HR, and other business departments, it can also impact digital security, making it much more efficient and boosting business resilience against cyber attacks.
In this blog, we are sharing different ways and practices you should prioritize if you get to take advantage of security automation.
Take advantage of SIEM solutions
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions can greatly benefit your security automation system. Such systems are responsible for unifying security logs to one place where you can analyze them. Results of this analysis are translated to alerts and reports that are generated when needed.
Such systems can become even more effective with Security Orchestration and Automation Response (SOAR) solutions, Which act on detecting potential threats based on patterns analyzed from known threats and tactics.
Look for risk scoring
From the stage of choosing a security automation system, you need to put in mind that you need risk scoring features to assess threats and raise the reliability of the system.
Risk scoring means that every threat will have a score. So your security teams will have the ability to quickly make decisions and determine priorities according to the threat score.
This can prevent losing a large threat from inside a long list of threats that can wait. Which can lead to preventing catastrophic consequences and faster response.
Use threshold alerting
Threshold alerting features, whatever the name they have, can be very beneficial. Such features allow you to simply use a custom script that you execute when an event or more occurs.
The script can automatically shut down the system, change firewall settings, disable one or more accounts or do anything else that you see that may reduce the likelihood of a security breach.
Such features mean that your security automation will be more automated than ever. As it really acts to defend your systems from intruders even when your specialists aren’t standing by.
Setup automated password resetting
One of the great features your security automation solution can benefit from our automated password reset features.
Such features remind users to reset their passwords periodically. That is to prevent the chance of an attacker getting persistent access to one account on your system.
