Automating basic tasks

IR can be overburdening, especially in small and mid-sized enterprises that may not have the resources to employ adequate response personnel. Furthermore, due to the wide-scoped nature of today's organizations whereby systems span from the local IT environment to the cloud, it might be impossible for security teams to handle all notifications about security events. Thus, automating some tasks might simplify the process and place less burden on the team.

For example, repetitive processes such as accessing reports from multiple security tools can be automated, and escalations of incidents, replies to tickets, and fallbacks should be automated such that after a certain time after the initial incident alert, there will be a guarantee that someone will start working to resolve it. Furthermore, classification of incidents can be automated to some degree by applying appropriate configurations at the point of data collection. When the security teams are not...