SIEM or SOAR? — TechKnowSurge

About this interactive

A SIEM (from the Monitoring and Alerting module) collects security logs and events from across the organization, normalizes and stores them where they cannot be tampered with, correlates them and raises alerts. Its job is to see and detect. Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) is software for managing the response itself, which the lesson calls a very stressful time. Orchestration is planning and coordinating. Customer support, the incident response manager, technicians, stakeholders and customers all need to know different things at different times. SOAR workflows flag what has to happen and when, such as an update that is due. Automation makes steps run by themselves. The lesson's example is escalation: instead of texting, emailing and calling people by hand, someone marks the incident escalated and the SOAR sends every message at once. Running a playbook step, like isolating a laptop or pulling a phishing email from every inbox, is the same idea. SOAR also brings data from many systems into one place for the response. A quick test: is the job spotting the problem, or running and coordinating what happens next?

What you'll learn

Tell a job a SOAR platform does, coordinating the response and automating its steps, from a job a SIEM does, collecting, correlating and alerting on security events
Explain how orchestration (planning and coordinating who does what and when) and automation (a step that runs by itself on a trigger) support the incident response process

Aligned to

CompTIA Security+

4.7 Explain the importance of automation and orchestration related to secure operations.

4.4 Explain security alerting and monitoring concepts and tools.

CompTIA CySA+

1.5 Explain the importance of efficiency and process improvement in security operations.

CompTIA SecurityX

4.5 Explain the use of automation, orchestration, and threat intelligence in security operations.

ISC2 CISSP

7.6 Conduct incident management

Key terms

Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response: Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response is a technology solution that combines security tool integration, automated workflow execution, and coordinated incident response to accelerate threat detection and remediation while reducing analyst workload.
Security Information and Event Management: A system that aggregates and analyzes security event data from across an organization to detect and respond to threats.
Playbook: A security playbook is a structured set of predefined response procedures for specific incident types, guiding analysts through detection, containment, eradication, and recovery steps in a consistent and repeatable manner.
Incident Response: A structured process for identifying, containing, eradicating, and recovering from security incidents.

Topics

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