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Automation and orchestration

Automation and orchestration

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Automation and orchestration

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- [Presenter] Standardizing tasks helps you identify opportunities for automation. You may be able to go beyond standardizing the work of team members and automate some responses to take people out of the loop entirely. Security orchestration, automation and response or SOAR platforms provide many opportunities to automate security tasks that cross between multiple systems. You may wish to coordinate with other members of your team, taking inventory of all the activities performed by the team and identifying those that are suitable for automation. Two-key characteristics of processes that can be automated are that they are both repeatable and do not require human interaction. Once you have automations in place, you'll just need to coordinate with your team to manage existing automations and facilitate the adoption of new automations. SOAR platforms also offer opportunities to improve your organization's use of threat intelligence. By bringing information about emerging threats into…

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