Improve Security Operation Response Times
It is becoming increasingly important that businesses protect themselves from cyber threats. Especially when it can cost millions of dollars to be unprepared. That’s where the Security Operation Centre (SOC) comes in. This houses the teams responsible for recognizing threats and defusing potential cyber-attacks. Because of the importance of this area, you should always be looking for ways to help improve the SOC. Today, we’ll be discussing some ways to help reduce the time it takes to respond to potential security threats.
Let’s start by looking at how Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) can allow your teams to respond to threats quicker. This system works by gathering information about the types of threats faced by the system. Then, it can determine how much potential damage a threat can do. The system can deal with low level threats itself and refer the high level threats to your team in the SOC. If facing multiple threats, the SOC can help create priorities using SOAR, cyber threats can then be evaluated based on the amount of potential damage they can cause. This technology will also make it easier for your teams to investigate the cause of any problems they face. Now that we know a little more about the benefits offered by SOAR technologies, let’s look at how automation can be used by the SOC to make your company even more secure.
One of the most effective ways to make your company respond faster to threats is through SOC automation. This will allow you to make the investigation process much faster and easier for your team members in SOC. A speedy investigation is key to limiting the amount of damage that hackers can do to the system and limiting the amount of information they can extract. Cyber security orchestration is also a great way of limiting the number of false positives that the team in SOC needs to investigate. In large organizations it is common for there to be multiple cyber threats occurring at once, often this means that the team needs to choose what threat to investigate. Making the system more automated will ensure that they only spend their time dealing with genuine threats. So, if these systems can help you sort through threats more efficiently and help increase your cyber security, how come many companies don’t have them? The biggest problem faced when installing this technology is that they are very complicated. For
this reason, it can be more expensive to increase SOC automation, although over the long-time you will probably end up saving money, as the SOC becomes more efficient.
Cyber threats are becoming increasingly advanced, with many hackers targeting businesses to try and obtain and exploit their information. Your key point of defence should be the SOC. The key to making this team more effective at protecting you from online threats is giving them information about cyber-attacks faster. We’ve discussed how automation and SOAR technologies are the most effective ways to improve your SOC.