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SOAR

SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response) is a genre of compatible software programs that allow an organization to collect data about security threats from multiple sources and respond to low-level security events without human assistance. The term, which was coined by the research firm Gartner, can be applied to compatible products and services that help define, prioritize, standardize and automate incident response functions.

The goal of using a SOAR software stack is to improve the efficiency of physical and digital security operations by merging threat and vulnerability management, security incidence response and security operations automation. According to Gartner, the three most important capabilities of SOAR technologies are:

Threat and vulnerability management: These technologies support the remediation of vulnerabilities. They provide formalized workflow, reporting and collaboration capabilities.

Security incident response: These technologies support how an organization plans, manages, tracks and coordinates the response to a security incident.

Security operations automation: These technologies support the automation and orchestration of workflows, processes, policy execution and reporting.

Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) programs offer an alternative means for addressing the cybersecurity skills gap by reducing the amount of work that requires human intervention. While both security information and event management (SIEM) and SOAR stacks aggregate relevant data from multiple sources, SOAR services integrate with a wider range of internal and external applications and are useful for spotting patterns of attack as well as isolated occurrences.

Today, many companies use SOAR services to augment in-house SIEM software. In the future, it is expected that as SIEM vendors begin to add SOAR capabilities to their services, the market for these two product lines will merge. Vendors that currently promote their ability to provide SOAR capabilities include LogRhythm, Rapid7 and Cybersponse.

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