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How SOAR Can Help You
Get Amazing Results
from Your Security
Analysts
by Stan Engelbrecht, Director of Cybersecurity Practice, D3 Security
ecurity orchestration, but leaders in the sector are personnel working outside the
automation, and response expanding SOAR across the SOC SOC. Because SOAR can act as
(SOAR) platforms are with numerous modules and the a central hub within the SOC, it
Sbecoming increasingly ability to orchestrate across the helps coordinate efforts through
prevalent security operations entire security stack. automating escalations and task
tools, emerging out of the The best SOAR solutions are assignments, eliminating data
categories of incident response, valuable for everyone on a siloes, and enforcing adherence
security automation, and threat security team, from people on to policies in workflows. These
intelligence platforms in the the front lines to managers and unique capabilities have allowed
last few years. Some SOAR executives tracking reports and SOAR to become the heart of the
platforms are narrowly focused metrics from a birds-eye view, SOC for many organizations. Of
on automating simple tasks, or even compliance and legal all the roles that SOAR supports,
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