Incident response automation
Effective IR is time-sensitive and requires teams to identify threats and initiate an incident response plan (IRP) as soon as possible. A security team receives thousands of security alerts from security tools every day and hence it is difficult to manually analyze events or assess every alarm that security tools generate. These constraints are addressed via automated IR. In Chapter 4, Security Automation and Orchestration Using Shuffle, we learned how shuffle SOAR makes this possible by creating workflows, helping the security team with automated incident enrichment, automated observable analysis with TheHive tool integration, automating Wazuh activities, and many more. In this chapter, our focus will be on using Wazuh’s in-built capability called active response to perform IR. In general, IR automation can help the security team with the following:
- Immediate containment: Once compromised systems are identified, automated IR systems should...
