A SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) system can be critical to your organization for several reasons:

• Increased efficiency: By automating routine cyber security tasks, your security team can focus on more complex threats.
• Faster response times: Enables faster detection and resolution of security incidents, minimizing potential damage.
• Improved coordination: Orchestrates the work of different security tools and teams to ensure a coordinated and effective response to threats.
• Reducing complexity: Helps to reduce the complexity of security management by standardizing and automating processes.
• Compliance and reporting: Supports regulatory compliance through the automated collection and analysis of security data and facilitates reporting.

A SOAR also supports security analysts in threat and vulnerability management, in the incident response process and in the automation of various security-relevant processes.

In short, SOAR helps you optimize your security operations, neutralize threats faster and deploy resources more efficiently, strengthening your company’s overall security posture.

We have experience with many leading SOAR providers.
In addition, SECUINFRA has strategic partnerships with Swimlane and Palo Alto Networks to get the most out of SOAR.

More and more companies want to improve their security processes with a SOAR – but this is difficult or even impossible, especially with small budgets or a lack of internal IT security experts. SECUINFRA offers you the possibility to realize your individual SOAR according to the modular principle. Our experts work with you to plan the implementation and optimization of various analysis scenarios and automations.

Various requirements must be met before a SOAR system can be introduced. This includes the option of connecting existing security tools such as XDR or SIEM systems via APIs. Furthermore, access to internal organizational systems such as Active Directory or CMDB must be available. Other sources for later contextualization such as threat intelligence databases or analysis tools round off the necessary connections.
Furthermore, their analysis processes must be defined for the subsequent automation of the alarm messages. A concrete incident response process for planning further steps also helps here. Despite the extensive automation options for various alerts, security analysts must have the necessary expertise to make a final assessment of potential threats.

SECUINFRA supports you in all necessary steps with our flexible SOAR Consulting.

SOAR systems support numerous IT security processes.
The focus here is on the automatic (pre-)analysis of various alarms from security systems such as XDR or SIEM. A SOAR system contextualizes the alarm information with data from other sources and automatically initiates protective measures if necessary.
In addition, a SOAR system offers the possibility of carrying out and evaluating threat hunting activities at regular intervals. Connections to existing systems such as EDR or NDR can be used for analysis activities. Another application of SOAR is the support of vulnerability management. The automatic checking of the products used and the subsequent assessment of their vulnerability increases their security.

The introduction of a SOAR system will strengthen your incident response process in many ways. First of all, this includes the forward-looking definition of the necessary action steps for individual threat scenarios. In addition, your incident response process becomes reproducible thanks to alarm-based playbooks, thereby improving the quality of the analysis work. In addition, a SOAR system enables the continuous and automated documentation of all activities carried out and the creation of case or summary reports.