{"id":3417,"date":"2021-06-02T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T20:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2021-06-02T16:22:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T20:22:29","slug":"what-is-soar-exploring-the-evolving-cybersecurity-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/what-is-soar-exploring-the-evolving-cybersecurity-space\/","title":{"rendered":"What is SOAR? Exploring the Evolving Cybersecurity Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2994\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2020\/04\/ransomware-4-mod.jpg\" alt=\"What is SOAR? Exploring the Evolving Cybersecurity Space\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2020\/04\/ransomware-4-mod.jpg 800w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2020\/04\/ransomware-4-mod-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2020\/04\/ransomware-4-mod-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2020\/04\/ransomware-4-mod-540x270.jpg 540w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2020\/04\/ransomware-4-mod-162x81.jpg 162w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/files\/2020\/04\/ransomware-4-mod-360x180.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><b><i>What is SOAR? Why should your business select a SOAR solution for its cybersecurity needs? How is it evolving to meet enterprise demands?\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cybersecurity faces a unique opponent, which is to say that it isn\u2019t just innovating for the sake of innovation or economic efficiency. Instead, it must constantly adapt and adjust to the threat landscape, the catch-all term for the tactics and tools employed by threat actors. Moreover, hackers refuse to rest on their laurels. They constantly develop new threats or crowdsource new tactics to subvert cybersecurity solutions and conclude their malicious plans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/soar-buyers-guide-security-orchestration-automation-and-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOAR<\/a> solutions evolved to fit with the new detection and response-based model, which in turn developed to combat the rise of more successfully penetrative threats. Additionally, it works to bridge the gaps between other cybersecurity solutions, as organizations build platforms from multiple providers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But what, exactly, is SOAR?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>What is SOAR?<\/b><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Defining SOAR As A Security Category<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before you can begin the research process, you need to understand the answer to the question of defining SOAR.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the Gartner 2020 Market Guide for SOAR, researchers define this cybersecurity category as \u201csolutions that combine incident response, orchestration and automation, and threat intelligence (TI) management capabilities in a single platform. SOAR tools are also used to document and implement processes (aka playbooks, workflows, and processes).\u201d Also, Gartner notes the importance of incident triage and compliance monitoring as capabilities in SOAR solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To put that in perhaps simpler terms, these solutions:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Automate security workflows to ensure they can run independently of human intelligence (enterprises do need to make sure these are optimal beforehand).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Orchestrate security information (finding security siloes, aggregating and normalizing that information, and presenting it through a single-pane-of-glass).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Respond to security incidents and cyber-attacks (helping human IT security members uncover, mitigate, and close security incidents through faster investigation and remediation).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Potential SOAR Use Cases\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your business might have multiple reasons to seek out a security orchestration, automation, and response solution. We present a few of the most common use cases here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The business suffers from too many manual security processes, necessitating automation.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your IT security team needs assistance with the incident response.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You use multiple cybersecurity tools and solutions, which can be more effectively bridged by orchestration for single-pane-of-glass visibility.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ultimately, it works towards two critical goals: efficiency and speed. By de-siloing information from multiple InfoSec tools and solutions, your enterprise can more effectively sort through security event data and find solutions. Also, by automating processes, your IT security team can focus their attention on more pressing matters like threat hunting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, none of this will seem important when a security event actually turns out to be a real threat. But SOAR steps in by helping IT security teams quickly find the source of the problem and remove it from the network.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To learn the full answer to the question, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/security-information-event-management\/soar-buyers-guide-security-orchestration-automation-and-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOAR Buyer\u2019s Guide<\/a>. We outline the market, the key capabilities, and the major players in the market. We even provide our own Bottom Line Analysis for each vendor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is SOAR? Why should your business select a SOAR solution for its cybersecurity needs? How is it evolving to meet enterprise demands?\u00a0 Cybersecurity faces a unique opponent, which is to say that it isn\u2019t just innovating for the sake of innovation or economic efficiency. 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