Automated incident response

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AUTOMATED INCIDENT
RESPONSE

• HOW ENTERPRISES BENEFIT FROM IT?

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Need Of Automation
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Key Security Operations Inefficiencies

• In this period where cyber threats happen quickly
  and relentless, consolidating incident response
  and automation is turning into a need for
  undertakings and MSSPs looking to keep their
  cyber protections up nonstop.

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Incident Response
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What is Incident Response

• Incident response (IR) is the systematic response
  and management of events following a cyber attack
  or any security breach. It involves a series of
  actions and activities aimed at reducing the
  impact of security breaches and cyber attacks on
  organizations.

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Effective Incident Response Plan

• The purpose of the incident response plan
• Details on how to use the plan
• Event handling protocols detailing the different
  activity types and how to respond
• Incident topology with different incident types
  and which information assets would be affected by
  such events

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Continued...

• Setup of a war room for critical decision makers
• Response plan for each incident type, information
  asset type and a checklist of what playbook needs
  to be triggered in the event of a cyber attack or
  security breach

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The Role Of Automation

• The impact of automated incident response can be
  mostly felt in detecting and responding to
  threats in real time. For instance, 91 of
  cyberattacks start with a phishing email and with
  automated incident response in place. However,
  these alerts and threats can be effectively
  handled without any human intervention. From
  gathering malware intel to following set
  processes and remediating threats, automation
  eliminates the need for analysts to comb through
  hundreds of alerts daily.

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The Role Of Automation

• Once processes are laid out in a consistent way,
  it becomes much simpler to identify the steps and
  tasks that are begging for automation to speed up
  incident response and free your team to focus on
  the tasks that most require their expertise.

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The Flow Of Automations Role
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Who Benefits from Automated Incident Response

• The benefits of automating incident response know
  no bounds for any organization seeking to improve
  their defenses in how they manage and respond to
  threats in this rapidly evolving environment.

• Incident Response Security Orchestration

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Impact Of Automated IR On Analyst

• By automating incident response, analysts can
  devote their time to working on more important
  and less repetitive tasks. Automation enables
  analysts to pay more attention to the critical
  items that require their attention and expedites
  the aggregation of data, putting the relevant
  details at the fingertips of the analyst for
  actual analysis.

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Impact Of Automated IR On SOC Manager

• Combining automation with incident response leads
  to improved capacity throughout the security
  operations team, an improvement in overall KPIs
  like mean time to detect (MTTD) and MTTR as well
  as a reduced employee turnover rate among key SOC
  team members.

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Impact Of Automated IR
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Conclusion

• While security automation is unquestionably not
  another wonder in IT generally, its application
  to IT security isn't yet boundless. This is
  halfway because of hesitation associations have
  around automating their full IR forms, including
  remediation. The potential for automation to
  assist the location of basic threats and help
  your group enhance its general execution is
  excessively enormous, making it impossible to
  disregard if you're looking to mitigate risk.