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What is SOAR?

Security Orchestration and Automation Response Services (SOAR)

Security automation can be considered a simple process that uses software to automate a small number of tasks. We use software to integrate security processes, infrastructure and applications to reduce human input.

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Benefits of Security Automation

Security automation can offer benefits such as:

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Correlate, centralise, and enrich security data while putting the data into context.
Automate time-consuming manual security tasks and workflows.
Improve your organisation’s security operations and reporting making them more efficient and consistent.
Accelerate incident detection, identification, mapping, eradication and remediation.

Integrate organisational policies, processes, applications and infrastructure.
Free up security teams and developers to perform more complex tasks.
Add intelligence to threat detection to trigger security notifications according to recognised security threats.
Prioritise threat notifications to reduce security alerts that can overwhelm security teams.

Automate remediation responses to minimise manual intervention.
Automatically track and report security incidents to enable security teams to develop effective security policies.
Scan security tools or define actions that trigger automatic scans of applications and organisational systems.
Prevent the loss of historical data and examine how your business’s security posture has evolved.

Security and Automation

Most organisations try to minimise the number of threats they face by eliminating vulnerabilities.

Cyber security automation will allow you to identify known attack methods and stay ahead of cybercriminals.

Microminder can use security automation to manage some of the more critical or tedious aspects of your organisation’s security infrastructure.

These security processes offer the most benefit when automated:

Monitoring tools provide visibility into your business's security posture and IT environment. This means they must constantly provide information at scale and use vulnerability databases to monitor open-source code. These activities need to direct security teams and notify them of detected threats and new vulnerabilities.

After a threat is detected, security teams need to know what parts of your network have been affected. What is the level of damage? An automation system can perform this forensic investigation in less time than manual investigations and provide more accurate results. The automation service providers, such as Microminder, will provide guidance on the remediation procedure that needs to be performed.

Usually, security teams must respond as soon as possible after a threat is detected. Security automation can take the urgency out of IT teams’ responses by promptly reacting. Automation tools can remove malware, install patches, make upgrades, or deactivate a harmful service without human intervention.

User-related tasks can be daunting, going into the hundreds depending on the size of your organisation and its functions. When you add, remove, or modify users. Automated security systems can save you time and valuable resources by performing escalation or de-escalation tasks and investigating user statuses.

Your systems and data must remain operational even after an attack to ensure business continuity. The system often has to be taken offline with manual security incident responses, meaning your business is barely functional. Security automation, however, can apply IP-blocking rules during an attack and let you use other IP addresses. It can also ensure critical data is still available by replicating critical server instances.

What is Security Orchestration

Cybersecurity orchestration is a well-known cybersecurity process that:

Connects multiple security tools and works to improve incident response times.
Integrates security and non-security tools to ingest and analyse data from incident and threat response platforms.
Allows our security experts to implement defences using internal and external resources.

Connects multiple security tools and works to improve incident response times.
Integrates security and non-security tools to ingest and analyse data from incident and threat response platforms.
Allows our security experts to implement defences using internal and external resources.
Streamlines security processes to ensure effective cybersecurity automation
Coordinates the flow of data and tasks into a repeatable automatable workflow
Allows organisations to take full advantage of people, processes and tools by leveraging and connecting systems, tools and processes.
Helps security operation centres (SOCs) avoid manual, repetitive tasks and make quick, informed decisions.
Reduces the risk of human error when investigating and identifying cyberattacks

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Why implement SOAR?

By implementing a security orchestration system with Microminder, your organisation can take advantage of various benefits, including:

Connecting and streamlining IT security processes. This will help your security team effectively manage and analyse security systems.

Detecting and responding to threats promptly through an automated investigation process.

Collating and correlating crucial incident data to find patterns in suspicious activities and create actionable response strategies.

Automation of malware analysis and threat hunting

Vulnerability management and response to phishing attempts

Automatic patching, bug detection and vulnerability detection.

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Differences Between Security Automation vs Security Orchestration

Although they perform many overlapping tasks, a security orchestration system and a security automation system have different objectives. The two terms are often used interchangeably, but the service orchestration and automation platform differ in a number of ways - namely:

Cybersecurity automation	Cybersecurity orchestration
Automate various tasks within a single system	Automate multiple tasks between numerous applications
Prepare and perform single security operations	A complete process that makes use of several automation tasks over several platforms
Form part of the overall orchestration process that includes more complex scenarios	Management, and coordination of numerous systems and services including middleware
Focus on data and incident codification	Focus on process systematisation

Benefits of Combining Security Automation and Security Orchestration

Having a centralised, intuitive orchestration and automation platform decreases the need for human intervention. These concepts are often referred to as SOAR (security orchestration, automation and response).

Efficient and effective use of organisational assets.
Increased productivity as a result of automated and orchestrated tasks.
Reduced work overload for security analysts and experts due to alert and task overloads.
Standardisation of security activities, ensuring consistency and accuracy.

Combining alerts from different sources into a comprehensive list allowing security teams to analyse and manage them.
Prompt incident response to minimise the impact of cyber breaches.
Integration of cybersecurity tools such as:

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Email security
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IT and infrastructure
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Threat intelligence
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SIEM and log management
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Cloud security
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Identity and access management

Simplifies reporting and allows cybersecurity analysts to schedule automatic reports and gain access at any time.

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What our clients say about us

Clients in over 20 countries have secured their businesses from online threats with our cybersecurity services. Excellent customer support and cost-effective pricing are just a few of the reasons we’ve established long-lasting, highly successful relationships with our varied clients. Read our company testimonials to learn more about our unique capabilities and why so many clients have chosen us as their go-to provider for security solutions.

Claire Lee

Practice Manager - Amsel and Wilkins LLP

Microminder's in depth and broad scope pen testing truly provided us with some valuable insights that uncovered key business risks and highlighted necessary actionable intelligent changes that needed to be implemented within our business to combat any potential cyber-attacks from adversaries and prevent any breaches. This exercise helped us to enhance our cyber security posture and test our system’s resilience. We are quite pleased with our engagement with Microminder.

Julie Cockbill

Head of Operations - InfinityBlu dental

Microminder's 24/7 managed security services got deployed with such ease and immediately gave us an eagle eye view into our security logs and events, highlighting any indicators of compromise, effectively automated our response and correlated the incidents with full context, thereby triaging and eliminating all false positives. Our team are amazed at the speed and accuracy of Microminder’s Open XDR technology and skilled staff.

Tina Patel

Head of Integrations – Dental Beauty Partners

Our priority is business continuity and security, especially considering our operations across our 30+ practices. Microminder helped us with a tailored managed security services that aligned with our business needs. Their technology is at the forefront of the industry and that allows us to fully put our trust in their cyber security experts. We are glad to have Microminder as an extension of our technology team!

Philipp Mussbacher

Security Engineer & solutions consultant – Anonymous

Due to the fact that we work a lot with sensitive data in a business context, information security plays a big role for us. Due to the difficult labour market situation and the urgency to improve our security, we have chosen Microminder's CISO as a Service model and are very happy with it. Our virtual CISO manages to ensure stability and quality on the security side as well as legal requirements and compliance. I can only recommend Microminder's service.

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