Get More From CyberSecurity Automation

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CyberSecurity Automation

• How To Get More From This Technology

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Introduction
According to Cisco's 2018 Annual Cybersecurity
Report, 41 of organizations are using
technologies and services from as many as 50
different vendors. Managing this many disparate
security tools and services creates a costly
headache for any enterprise SOC.
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Best-of-Breed vs. Integrated Security Technologies
Proliferation of high-profile breaches drove
enterprises to adopt layered security and defense
in depth strategies over the past decade. As a
result, security teams found themselves procuring
a variety of point products, from firewalls and
malware protection to IDS and disaster recovery
solutions.
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Best-of-Breed Solution
Within the purchasing process, organizations
ultimately had to make a choice - go for
best-of-breed solutions or choose a single-source
integrated option. Cisco's study found that the
vast majority of organizations - 72 - say they
buy best-of-breed tools because they meet
specific needs. Teams with best-of-breed
approaches also feel that this method is the more
cost-effective and easier to implement option.
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The More You See, The More You Miss
Chief among the outcomes of a vast ecosystem of
security tools is a massive amount of alerts
triggered by the various technologies in your
stack. Security operations teams have never had
more data points available to them to identify,
investigate and analyze threats. So many data
points, in fact, that enterprise SOC teams can't
possibly get to them all.
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Cybersecurity Sprawl Struggle Is Real
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Security Orchestration And Automation
Turns out, it is possible to get the benefits of
an integrated, platform approach using the tools
you already have. Security orchestration and
automation is purpose built to address the
technology sprawl that has occurred in
cybersecurity over the past several years. A
security orchestration platform can enrich
individual alerts with data from across the
environment, grouping related alerts into cases
to combat alert fatigue and give analysts the
context they need to zero in on truly malicious
activity.
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Creating Security Operations Center
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Integrate Orchestrate From A Single Console
Most security orchestration platforms enable SOC
teams to integrate the dozens of tools they
already use and manage them from one interface.
By providing this unifying fabric and single
pane of glass, analysts are able to eliminate
screen switching and security operations
organizations no longer need experts in every
single technology.
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Automate Repetitive Tasks
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Increasing Analyst Capacity
Security automation is ideal for these activities
that require a high amount of manual work,
require fast response, happen regularly and
require a significant degree of user involvement.
Automating these items greatly improves security
operations efficiency, freeing up analyst time
for more valuable tasks, increasing analyst
capacity, and ensuring alerts no longer go
uninvestigated.
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Gain Context And Deeper Insight
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Conclusion
Security orchestration platforms integrate data
across your entire security operations footprint,
enriching alerts and showing the full scope of
entities, artifacts and relationships impacted by
a threat. Armed with context, security analysts
are equipped to conduct more thorough
investigations, better address related alerts in
a single case and develop insights that lead to
real management of threats.