How Incident Response Automation Helps Organizations
07.10.2022
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As digital transformation opportunities are constantly expanding, cyber threats are becoming more dangerous day by day. And as a result of this, it’s getting increasingly harder to secure digital assets.
Cybersecurity teams must constantly improve their nstrategy repertoire so that organizations do not face severe losses.
Incident response strategies stand out as one of the most powerful weapons that can prevent cyber attacks.
Every company carries out most of its business processes with digital solutions in today's business environment. That's why managing incident response processes with manual methods is becoming more challenging every day.
This article will discuss how you can strengthen your cyber security structure with automated incident response tools in the modern digital business world.
Incident response (IR) is a term that refers to the actions taken during and after cyber attacks or security breaches and the methodology the cyber security team uses to manage the incident.
The ultimate goal of incident response is to minimize the damage caused by the attack or breach to the financial structure and reputation of the company and to restore the functionality of units of the organization as soon as possible.
A computer incident response team (CIRT) typically executes incident response strategies. This team prepares a comprehensive incident response plan, which includes the roadmap to be followed during an incident and the responsibilities of all units of the organization.
This team is also responsible for acting in line with this plan when an incident occurs. However, it should not be forgotten that incident response management is a complex process that threatens the entire organization. For this process to be successful, all units of the organization should support the computer incident response team.
Every second counts for companies trying to survive in the competition of the modern age. If the company's CIRT unit tries to manage incident response with traditional manual methods, the time they lose and the small details they miss can cause severe losses to the company.
Security incidents usually give their first signals with abnormal behavioral movements or unexpected system functioning changes. Cyber security units need to regularly analyze a large number of activities in order to notice these signals. And doing so requires considerable time and effort.
There is a radical increase in the number of companies that carry out their business processes with digital channels. It is almost impossible to manually deal with the amount of workload of a company that has gone through a digital transformation.
Automated IR tools can perform most routine tasks that cybersecurity teams must carry out. They can analyze many events in milliseconds and flag them according to criteria determined by security procedures.
This way, your teams can focus on the most critical issues that need human intervention. So your organization can effectively manage major incidents and significantly shorten the incident lifecycle.
A robust, automated incident response solution makes the entire incident response process more efficient and minimizes potential short- and long-term damage from cyber attacks and breaches.
Some of the key benefits that organizations can get from automating incident response include:
Automated tools can receive data from many security entities and analyze this data in a very short time. As a result of these analyses, events that need to be investigated are quickly identified, and the actions to be taken can be performed either automatically or manually by the team. This radically increases the response speed and efficiency of the CIRT unit.
Even when the team solves the incident, the contribution of automatic tools to the response process does not end. They significantly reduce the likelihood of repeated similar incidents with the reports they create.
Robust automation tools allow security analysts to clearly see even the smallest details of events. Teams can filter events as needed and detect elements that can trigger, affect, or be affected by the incident.
Thus, not temporary but permanent solutions can be applied to incidents, and the team can quickly intervene in smaller incidents (called baby incidents) that occur after the response process.
Incident response automation makes a significant contribution to your budget in two ways:
Fully automated incident response tools enable fast and comprehensive communication between internal units and external players, which is one of the most critical steps of the incident response management plan.
This way, you can provide reliable and detailed information to all your stakeholders during an incident.
Security teams receive regular alerts from security tools and software. The team evaluates these warnings individually when incident response activities are carried out with manual methods. In this process, false evaluations due to human error may occur. This causes units to be falsely alarmed and waste effort.
Since automated tools can always perform evaluations in full compliance with security procedures, they significantly reduce false positive rates.
Urgent and exceptional tasks added to repetitive security processes can increase the stress load on your employees. And stress limits employee productivity and success.
Employees perform fewer but more important tasks when automated incident response tools are used. As your team works in a comfortable flow, their stress decreases while productivity increases.
Organizations should choose next-gen automated incident response tools equipped with innovative capabilities to fully benefit from automation tools.
Logsign Unified SIEM is one of the fastest SIEM tools with innovative capabilities and a visionary approach.
It’s a simple-to-deploy, easy-to-use, and comprehensive platform that lets you detect and manage potential incidents in the most efficient way with its unique threat detection and incident management modules.
If you want to strengthen and modernize your cyber security posture with the out-of-the-box, automated incident management & response features of Logsign Unified SIEM, you can request a live demo & see it in action!
