Know more about SOAR platform in cybersecurity: (Orchestration, Automation and Response)

SOAR platform is the one stop solution for receiving advanced intelligence reports in cyber security. Automating the data collection into a single place in such way enables analysts to review and decide if the situation is suspicious. If the investigation confirms an incident, it would initiate the workflow to respond appropriately to the incident.

It is high time for corporates to not only capture, aggregate and validate a wider range of intelligence across their networks, endpoints and cloud environments, but also make more out of SOAR benefits. SOAR platforms helps in achieving this by generating actionable outputs that enhance threat detection and response capabilities.

An ideal SOAR platform is integrated with a large number of security technologies. This enables them to leverage an extensive range of telemetry, centralise workflows and improve multi-stakeholder and compliance reporting.

SOAR and its functioning

SOAR stands for Security Orchestration, Automation and Response. SOAR platforms provide technologies for organisations to assemble their massive data regarding cyber security and alerts from an extensive array of sources. This makes it easier to form automated responses to low-level security events and regulate threat detection and remediation dealings.

SOAR platforms have certain such as: orchestration, security automation and security response.

Security Orchestration

Security orchestration integrates and streamlines cybersecurity processes and tools into a unified whole in order to streamline a range of security operations tasks. Connecting and integrating disparate internal and external tools via built-in or custom integrations occurs by security orchestration.

Security Automation

Security automation accomplishes many tasks with machines that free up human resources for other priorities. Security automation, fed by the data and alerts collected from security orchestration, ingests and analyses data and creates repeated, automated processes to replace manual processes.

Security Response

Security response offers a single view for analysts into the planning, managing, monitoring and reporting of actions carried out once a threat is detected. It also includes post-incident response activities, such as case management, reporting and threat intelligence sharing.

SOAR and SEAM

A Soar platform helps in collection of alerts from various sources such as SIEM & cloud applications, by performing automatic enrichments on entities.

While both SOAR and SEAM aggregate data from multiple sources, the terms are not interchangeable. SOAR platforms integrate with a wider range of internal and external applications, both security and non-security.

SIEM systems only alert security analysts of a potential event, SOAR platforms use automation, AI and machine learning to provide greater context and automated responses to those threats.

SOAR platforms for cybersecurity

Here is a list of some popular SOAR vendors and products they offer:

•Cyware Virtual Cyber Fusion Center

•D3 Security D3 SOAR

•DFLabs IncMan SOAR

•EclecticIQ Platform

•FireEye Helix

•Fortinet FortiSOAR

•Honeycomb SOCAutomation

• Security Resilient

•LogicHub SOAR+

•Micro Focus ArcSight SOAR