What is SOAR?
According to Gartner, “Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) solutions combine incident response, orchestration and automation, and threat intelligence (TI) management capabilities in a single platform.” SOAR tools are used to implement processes such as security playbooks, workflows, or processes to support a security operation analyst or incident analyst. The functionalities of SOAR are as follows:
- Security orchestration: Security orchestration involves the coordination of security tasks and workflows across several security tools and teams. It aims to streamline and optimize a response to security incidents and threats. We can create workflows that automate a sequence of security tasks, such as alert triage, investigation, containment, and remediation. This also involves the integration of a wide range of security tools, such as SIEM, firewalls, endpoint protection, and threat intelligence feeds. An example could be orchestrating...
