Automation and orchestration
Are you effectively managing detections but unable to reduce manual workflows due to lack of automation and ineffective prioritized response for high fidelity alerts results in high dwell times and SOC inefficiencies? Bring order to the chaos of your security operations. Splunk Security unifies SIEM (Splunk Enterprise Security), SOAR (Splunk SOAR), and threat intelligence capabilities under one common worksurface - Splunk Mission Control. Now your SOC can rapidly and seamlessly detect, investigate and respond to threats using one centralized management console that leverages industry-standard response templates. Doing so allows you to better understand business risk by seeing the entire picture of security insights and trends to detect what matters, investigate holistically, and respond intelligently. Streamline your security operations by improving SOC process adherence, and scale your team’s productivity by fusing your Splunk ES insights with security automation and threat intelligence.
Automation and orchestration capabilities will help you:
- Unify. Understand business risk by seeing the entire picture of security insights and trends when you unify your SOC tools and data in a single work surface.
- Simplify. Streamline your workflows by improving SOC process adherence when you codify your operating procedures into pre-defined templates.
- Modernize. Respond faster by automating manual, repetitive security processes across your integrated security stack for more proactive, empowered security operations.
What are the benefits of automating incident response?
By building security automation into the incident response process, you let your system monitor, review, and initiate a response, rather than having people monitor your security posture and manually react to events. Incident response teams see hundreds of alerts per day, and if analysts continue to respond to alerts in the same way, they risk alert fatigue. Over time, analysts can become desensitized to alerts which can lead to mistakes when handling ordinary situations or overlooking unusual alerts that need to be reviewed.
Automation via SOAR helps avoid alert fatigue by using workflow actions, or playbooks, that process the repetitive and ordinary alerts, leaving analysts to handle the most sensitive and unique incidents. Purpose-driven dynamic playbooks allow you to adapt quick, decision-based practices on new incidents and focus on high-level investigations while reducing repetitive investigative tasks.
You can achieve the following benefits through SOAR automation:
- Triage alarms more effectively.
- Respond to critical events faster.
- Seamlessly integrate your existing security solutions into a more efficient and comprehensive incident response program.
- Centrally automate retrieval, sharing, and response actions for improved detection, investigation and remediation times.
- Improve operational efficiency using workflow based context with automated and human-assisted decision making.
- Extend new insights into threats by leveraging context, data enrichment, and adaptive response.
Furthermore, using Splunk Mission Control together with Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk SOAR to coordinate workflows across the detection, investigation, and response process in a single console ensures that SOC teams are better aligned and are prioritizing responses based on urgency. This helps the overall business better address risk by unifying tools, data and processes in a single console. Using Response Templates within Splunk Mission Control allows SOC Directors to provide a standard response process for unique threat scenarios or prevalent attack patterns. This also allows the basic response processes to be automatic for the most mundane of alerts.
What are automated incident response best practices?
You can become more efficient by programmatically automating steps within incident response processes.
First, identify the remediation pattern to an event or use Splunk Enterprise Security notables, and then codify those items into actionable logic using the visual editor, or through the integrated development environment.
Responders can then execute playbooks to triage, escalate and remediate issues. Over time you can automate more and more steps, and ultimately automatically handle common incidents, freeing up your analysts to focus on critical threats.
You can also use Splunk Security Essentials (SSE) to identify content where there are recommended SOAR playbooks available, and access guidance on how those playbooks can help to address threats through automation.
During an incident, timing matters, and analysts need to zero in on the evidence that leads to resolution. Implementing content-based processes to quickly tap into correlated security incidents and events helps you achieve your mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR) goals.
What automated incident response processes can I put in place?
Splunk recommends following the Prescriptive Adoption Motion: Automation and Orchestration. This guide walks you step-by-step through planning, training, analyzing important considerations, and implement a SOAR solution in your business.
These additional resources will help you implement this guidance:
- Product Tip: Responding to security incidents using SOAR
- Getting Started Guide: Getting started with Splunk Mission Control for unified security operations