What is SOAR?
Security Orchestration, Automation and Response
A platform that automates security operations workflows by orchestrating actions across multiple security tools, enabling standardized incident response through predefined playbooks.
SOAR platforms connect to security tools via APIs and execute automated or semi-automated response workflows (playbooks) when triggered by alerts from SIEM, XDR, or other detection systems. A typical playbook might receive a DLP alert from the SASE platform, enrich it with user information from the identity provider, check the user's risk score in the UEBA system, create a ticket in the ITSM platform, and if the severity warrants it, automatically disable the user's SaaS access via the CASB API.
The value of SOAR in a SASE context is reducing the mean time to respond (MTTR) for security incidents that span network and security domains. When a ZTNA policy violation occurs, a SOAR playbook can automatically quarantine the device in the SASE platform, trigger an EDR scan, notify the user's manager, and open an investigation case, all within seconds of the initial alert.
SOAR adoption fails when organizations try to automate before standardizing. If the incident response process for a DLP violation is not documented and consistently followed by analysts, automating it will produce automated mistakes. Start by documenting manual runbooks, identify the high-volume repetitive steps, automate those first, and expand gradually.
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