SOC managers should work with their teams to define and document processes, codifying them into playbooks. From there, security orchestration and automation can be applied to unify and automate your technologies and processes. For more on how your security operations team can get started using security automation, check out our webinar on security automation quick wins. Visit - https://www.siemplify.co/blog/security-operations-strategies-for-winning-the-cyberwar

1. Security Operations Strategies for
Winning the Cyberwar
Security Automation and Orchestration

2. Introductions
Advice for staying ahead of cyberthreats abounds, yet most organizations still find
themselves struggling to keep pace in a consistently evolving threat landscape.
Recently, the Forbes Technology Council asked a panel of 13 IT experts for their
strategies and approaches to more effectively do battle in what often feels like an
all-out cyberwar. Let's take a look at a few of the suggestions that security
operations teams should be considering.

3. Thwarting cyber threats just takes a little
security operations strategy

4. Security Operations Strategy
If the saying goes "trust but verify," Zero Trust presumes that you should never
trust and always verify. The Zero Trust model, created by John Kindervag, says
organizations should never automatically trust anyone or anything inside or
outside its perimeter without verifying before granting access.
This is why you'll see a variety of technologies employed in support of a Zero
Trust model - from multi-factor authentication (MFA) and identity access
management (IAM) to encryption, analytics and security orchestration.

5. Incident Response

6. Get Clear Visibility into Your IT Infrastructure
Drawing up an effective defense plan is impossible if you don't know what you're
supposed to be defending. No amount of technology or process can make up for a
lack of visibility within your environment.
However, the advantages of bringing these groups into alignment are numerous,
ranging from a deeper understanding of risks and threats to improved visibility,
reduced duplication of efforts, opportunities for cross-training and improved
incident response.

7. Understand Your Top Threats
Knowing is half the battle. While the
threats seen by any given
organization can seem random, it
isn't always the case. Closer
introspection can often reveal
patterns related to attack vectors,
compliance gaps and vulnerabilities.

8. Security Operations

9. Automate and Orchestrate Your Workflow
We talk about it all the time -
technology is in oversupply and
talent is scarce, which means
security teams can't keep up with
growing alert volumes. Most SOCs
face an overabundance of
repetitive tasks in the form of
weeding out false positives which
can be easily handled through
security automation.

10. Conclusion
SOC managers should work with their teams to define and document
processes, codifying them into playbooks. From there, security orchestration
and automation can be applied to unify and automate your technologies and
processes.
For more on how your security operations team can get started using
security automation, check out our webinar on security automation quick wins.