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Security Automation Becomes Collaborative and Social

Moving forward, it isn’t enough to create workflows on an as-needed basis. Rather, these workflows must
be able to be replicated and shared between colleagues and partners. Once an optimized security
workflow has been created, why silo it into one use case? Why not make it available for others to deploy?

This is analogous to the “open sourcing of security,” meaning workflows aren’t just one-offs. Instead,
many can be reused and tweaked for different use cases, further saving time and increasing productivity.
Security automation vendors will “bake in” collaboration and social sharing into their platforms, as well as
provide a way to export data so it can be used across myriad analytics and BI tools.

Security vendors will also pursue creating comprehensive workflow libraries, in addition to template
libraries, and make them easily available for instant deployment to their customers. This could occur via
GitHub-style access.

Security Automation Closes the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Security automation will enable more “non-security” professionals to enter cybersecurity. No-code
security automation, with its prebuilt workflows and templates, will democratize cybersecurity as a
profession, meaning it will eliminate technical barriers, and coding/development knowledge
requirements, while enabling staff to deliver the most precise, reliable, and resilient cybersecurity posture
possible.

About the Author

Leonid Belkind is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
at Torq, a no-code security automation platform. Prior to
Torq, Leonid co-founded, and was CTO of Luminate Security,
a pioneer in Zero Trust Network Access and Secure Access
Services Edge, where he guided this enterprise-grade
service from inception, to Fortune 500 adoption, to acquisition
by Symantec. Before Luminate, Leonid managed engineering
organizations at Check Point Software Technologies that
delivered network, endpoint and data security products to the
world’s largest organizations.

Leonid can be reached online on Twitter, LinkedIn and at our
company website https://torq.io

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