Security, Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) tools are software products that enable IT teams to define, standardize and automate the organization’s incident response activities. Most organizations use these tools to automate security operations and processes, respond to incidents, and manage vulnerabilities and threats.

Generally, the SOAR solutions enable teams to collect valuable security data, identify, analyze, and address existing and potential threats and vulnerabilities from different sources. Consequently, the tools provide more visibility that allows organizations to respond to security incidents faster, efficiently, and consistently.

An ideal SOAR tool should;

• Ingest and analyze information and alerts from various security systems.
• Have the ability to define, build and automate workflows that the teams require to identify, prioritize, investigate and respond to the security alerts.
• Orchestrate and integrate with a broad range of tools to improve operations.
• Have forensic capabilities to perform post-incident analysis and enable teams to improve their processes and prevent similar issues.
• Automates most of the security operations hence eliminating repetitive tasks and allowing teams to save time and concentrate on more complex tasks that require human input

The tools rely on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other technologies to automate repetitive tasks such as gathering information, enriching and correlating data, and more. Such an approach helps the teams to respond to a wide range of security issues faster and at scale.

Additionally, most of the SOAR solutions have playbooks that provide instructions based on proven practices and procedures. Using the playbooks ensures consistency, compliance, faster and reliable identification, and remediation of incidents.

With so many security products in the market, we have compiled a list of some of the best SOAR solutions to help you select the right solution to address your unique needs.

Let’s explore them. 👨‍💻

1. Splunk Phantom
2. IBM Resilient
3. DFLabs IncMan
4. Insightconnect
5. RespondX
6. Exabeam
7. ServiceNow
8. SIRP

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