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yber attacks are increasing security incidents they face,” says
in volume and complexity, Tanuj Gulati, CTO and co-founder
and affecting more people of Securonix. “Securonix’s Res-
Cand costing more money. ponseBot arms junior security
Last year 1,579 breaches were re- analysts with the information and
ported (source: ITRC), costing an expertise of a highly advanced
average of $3.62 million per bre- SOC analyst, enabling them to
ach (source: Ponemon Institute). address complex cybersecurity
alerts right away.”
Security teams simply can’t keep
up. Organizations struggle to ma- Leveraging machine learning
nage the deluge of security alerts. with security analytics can relie-
Existing CSIRT and SOC teams are ve the stress on cybersecurity
stretched. Meanwhile thousands analysts and help reduce incident
of security job openings go unfil- response time by up to 95 per-
led. According to ESG, two-thirds cent. Junior analysts can increase
of security professionals claim efficiency by following AI-based
they are too busy to keep up with guidelines, essentially operating
skill training and development. like more experienced staff. Se-
Enterprises are left to tackle secu- nior analysts are then freed up
rity with entry-level analysts and to tackle the truly challenging
hope for the best. cybersecurity issues, resulting in
a 300-500 percent improvement
One answer to this problem is to in threat detection and remedia-
incorporate AI and automation, tion times.
with innovations like Securonix
ResponseBot. ResponseBot is a About the Author
new capability within Securo-
nix Security Analytics, and uses Aarij brings a deep
machine learning to learn the understanding
responses of highly experienced of the security
market and buyer
security experts. Once the beha- combined with
vior is learned, ResponseBot can over 15 years
automatically execute response of marketing
actions for specific cybersecurity leadership at high
growth, innovative
alerts. Automation executes rou- security vendors.
tine tasks, such as quarantine, fo- Previously, Aarij led
rensic data collection, etc., redu- marketing efforts
cing the overall level of manual at RiskIQ where he was responsible for product
marketing, analyst and public relations strategy,
effort required. channel marketing, field marketing, and growth.
He also led product and solution marketing at
“We constantly hear that cyber- Tenable Network Security, ThreatMetrix and had
security experts are in extremely spent over 4 years at ArcSight/HP where he was
instrumental in the rapid adoption of ArcSight
high demand and organizations SIEM products.
do not have enough trained per-
sonnel to address the flood of

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