Tools and technologies against threats

Cybersecurity automation involves using tools, processes, and technologies to automatically detect, analyze, and respond to security incidents. It can be applied to various cybersecurity tasks, including monitoring, threat detection, incident response (IR), and reporting.

One of the key benefits of automation in cybersecurity is the ability to process large volumes of data and detect threats quickly and accurately. Traditional manual monitoring and threat detection methods can be time-consuming and prone to human error. Automation tools can process and analyze data in real time, alerting security teams to potential threats and anomalies as they occur.

Automated security tools can take many forms, depending on the specific task they are designed to perform. Let’s now see some common examples.

Security information and event management (SIEM)

SIEM platforms are tools to collect and analyze security event data (that is, records...