Automating cybersecurity
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The document discusses the challenges faced by cybersecurity teams, including alert fatigue, a shortage of professionals, and the reliance on manual processes. It emphasizes the benefits of Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) platforms in automating tasks like responding to phishing attacks, managing network traffic, and improving communication within security teams. By adopting automation, organizations can enhance their threat detection capabilities, reduce investigation times, and improve overall security posture.
Automating cybersecurity
- 2. 02 Automating cybersecurity: Facts Cybersecurity teams are: 1. Stretched 2. Manifesting alert fatigue 3. Facing escalating volume of alerts to sort 4. Bogged down with time- consuming tasks 1.8 million global shortage of cybersecurity professionals by 2022 50% of enterprises have six or more tools that generate security alerts
- 3. 03 Security operations teams: • Face increasingly hostile threat landscape • Are struggling to keep up with high volume of security alerts • Rely on manual, document-based procedures for operations. • Have longer analyst onboarding times • Use stale procedures, inconsistent operational functions. • Lack people, expertise and budgets to protect against threats adequately. • Threat intelligence management capabilities are starting to merge with SOAR tools to provide a single operational tool Automating cybersecurity: Trends
- 4. Automating cybersecurity With automation, the manual effort and time involved from detection to alert triage and remediation can be reduced and it may even be possible to stop an ongoing attack in its tracks. A good SOAR (Security Orchestration Automation and Response) can help you compile automation playbooks to alleviate some of those important, but time-consuming, manual tasks and manage complex use cases. 04
- 5. Use case #1: Phishing attacks • Huge attack volume and velocity • SOCs and analysts can’t keep up • Switching multiple screens to coordinate responses • Unable to standardise response and reporting 05
- 6. A SOAR platform can: • Trigger phishing playbooks to run repeatable tasks at machine speed • Identify false positives, and standardised SOC responses at scale. • Extract header information, email addresses, URLs and even attachments. • Automate submission of data to threat intelligence services • Conduct detailed scan of network logs • Contain/quarantine malicious threats • Delete phishing instances, block IP or URLs, ban executables. • Reduce investigation time from hours to minutes 06
- 7. 07 Use case #2: Malicious network traffic • Generates many alerts deemed malicious by detection technology • Creates false positives or low priority alerts • Often left in queue awaiting investigation • Security teams have little or no capacity to conduct triage
- 8. A SOAR platform can: • Apply automatic data enrichment tools (threat intelligence, etc) • Search additional threat instances via automated workflows • Immediate triage and response upon threat alert • Auto trigger of containment by blocking IP or isolating host 08
- 9. Use case #3: Vulnerability management • Reviews and alerts system owners to potential weakness • Time-consuming but critical task • Often performed externally • Carries risk of undetected threats within IT infrastructure 09
- 10. 10 A SOAR platform can: • Improve dynamic threat analysis by automating workflows • Boost productivity of security analysts • Dramatically increase ability to detect sophisticated threats
- 11. 11 Use case #4: Processing data logs • Too much data to organise manually and accurately for decision-making • Log entry volumes are too high for threat detection and response • Cumbersome to process log data into right format for remediation
- 12. 12 A SOAR platform can: • Correlate the data independently • Pull in all threat data across the network • Validate against external threat intelligence sources • Help analysts identify threats and decide on next steps
- 13. Use case #5: Improving lines of communication • Security teams frequently fail to update key stakeholders about potential threats • They are too busy to send out information • Clunky messaging platforms are challenging to use and deter communication 13
- 14. 14 A SOAR platform can: • Free up security staff resources to focus on more important tasks • Develop better metrics for response times from different departments • Increase the security team’s voice with company executives
- 15. 15 Use case #6: Dwell times • Manual correlation and analysis of data • Laborious data collation across end points, servers and mobile devices. • Difficult to scale tasks and workflow • Average dwell time to detect and contain intruder: 50 to 150 days
- 16. 16 A SOAR platform can: • Accelerate investigation and detection • Improve accuracy of analysis • Increase remediation success rates • Reduce dwell times to hours
- 17. Use case #7: Mitigating threats faster than they spread • Difficult to protect against fast-moving threats • Challenging to deploy sets of protection using different technologies • Time-consuming, manual task. • Involves multiple security vendors in the technology stack 17
- 18. 18 A SOAR platform can: • Speed up response times • Enable protections on the fly • Eliminate additional strain on SOC resources • Aggregate and validate data from a wide range of security products
- 19. Partner with an MSSP to automate your organisation’s security posture For those IT and security executives whose organisations are beginning or in the midst of a technology transformation, these are both challenging and exciting times. Cybersecurity automation offers an enhanced security response to threats that ensure optimal resolution and protection against threats. 19
- 20. Chat with us to learn how we can partner with you to automate your organisation’s security infrastructure. END