Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) allows your business to take full advantage of security automation. It combines a number of aspects that come together to benefit your security and make it more powerful including:
Automation: which means manual tasks done by security department employees are replaced with automation software that acts and performs tasks through the system with no human intervention.
Orchestration: which means that your digital system will have its multiple tools work together and orchestrate for detecting and eliminating threats automatically.
Incident response: which means that the digital automation system is designed to take actions according to incidents as if it manages to protect your system like humans.
SOAR tools mean that your security department employees will have more time to focus on what matters. With threats being more addressable and the automation system adding a layer of protection that defends itself automatically with predefined actions.
In this blog, we are sharing the biggest benefits of SOAR tools that make it a worthy investment as a part of your security automation system.
Faster and smarter reaction to big threats
One of the biggest benefits of SOAR systems is that they can help your security teams focus more on threats that matter. With incident response tools helping in activating the first layer of protection automatically. Then boosting the success of proper reaction to big threats.
Your security system takes advantage of security automation and SOAR. You can expect threats to rank in a more meaningful way to stop focusing on less important ones. Then it is lost in a long list of threats. Thus, forgetting the real ones.
Automated data gathering
One of the most time-wasting processes during incident response is gathering data. At such critical times, it means much if data is already available. Then you can automatically gather to begin the work right away.
As SOAR systems take actions automatically to help protect your system. For instance, like locking accounts, disabling servers or changing passwords. They also gather the system’s required data from multiple sources automatically. That is to save you time while managing to face a threat that you think is big.
Higher reporting efficiency
SOAR systems can help in boosting the ability of your security department to operate efficiently in eliminating threats and preventing cyberattacks. They can also help them with reporting their status and results efficiently.
You can waste less time on creating manual reports with the right metrics. Also, such systems always come with reports in advance ready to generate with metrics. Which the developers know will matter most to security experts.
