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The SOC Perspective

The SOC Elevator Pitch

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Empower your SOC team with OpenSecOps SOAR, designed to transform and elevate your security operations. By automating routine incident handling and integrating seamlessly with AWS Security Hub, OpenSecOps SOAR not only streamlines ticketing processes but also consolidates security data across all accounts into a single pane of glass. This advanced automation, which also comprises automatic remediation of common security flaws, frees up valuable time for your analysts to focus on critical threats and proactive defense strategies. With AI-driven insights at their fingertips, SOC personnel are equipped to make informed decisions swiftly, ensuring a robust defense mechanism that evolves alongside emerging threats.

Further SOC Perspectives

The Security Operations Center (SOC) team would have a positive experience working with OpenSecOps Foundation and OpenSecOps SOAR, although their role may evolve rather than be diminished. Here's how SOC teams would benefit from these solutions:

  1. Automated Incident Handling: OpenSecOps SOAR automates incident handling processes, allowing SOC teams to respond more efficiently to security incidents. Instead of manually investigating and remediating every incident, the system automatically handles routine incidents based on predefined rules and playbooks. This automation frees up SOC personnel to focus on more complex or critical incidents that require human intervention.

  2. Streamlined Ticketing Processes: OpenSecOps SOAR creates ServiceNow or Jira tickets for incidents that require further investigation or manual intervention by SOC teams. These tickets provide all the necessary information about the incident, enabling SOC analysts to quickly assess the situation and take appropriate action.

  3. Consolidated Security Data: OpenSecOps SOAR integrates with AWS Security Hub, aggregating security data from various sources into a single interface for easy monitoring and analysis. This consolidated view allows SOC teams to identify patterns, trends, and potential threats across multiple accounts and environments more effectively.

  4. Improved Efficiency: By automating incident response processes for common issues through auto-remediation capabilities, OpenSecOps SOAR reduces the manual effort required by SOC analysts in addressing routine tasks. This improved efficiency enables them to focus on higher-value activities such as threat hunting, advanced analysis, proactive security measures implementation, and continuous improvement of security controls.

  5. Enhanced Collaboration: The ticketing system within OpenSecOps SOAR facilitates collaboration between different stakeholders involved in incident response processes – such as developers responsible for specific accounts or environments – and the SOC team itself. Clear communication channels are established through automated ticket creation and tracking mechanisms.

  6. AI-based Insights: The AI-driven analysis provided by OpenSecOps SOAR offers valuable insights into security issues detected across the organisation's infrastructure. SOC teams can leverage these insights to gain a deeper understanding of emerging threats, identify potential vulnerabilities, and strengthen their overall security posture.

While OpenSecOps Foundation and OpenSecOps SOAR automate certain incident handling tasks, it is important to note that SOC teams still play a critical role in managing complex incidents, conducting investigations, threat hunting activities, fine-tuning security controls, and providing strategic guidance for the organisation's security strategy. The automation provided by OpenSecOps SOAR allows SOC analysts to focus on higher-level analysis and decision-making rather than being overwhelmed by repetitive or low-value tasks.

Overall, working with OpenSecOps Foundation and OpenSecOps SOAR enables SOC teams to operate more efficiently by automating routine incident response processes while providing valuable insights and collaboration capabilities. This allows them to enhance their effectiveness in detecting and responding to security threats within the organisation's AWS infrastructure.

OpenSecOps Foundation

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OpenSecOps Foundation provides an industry-standard secure system set up according to AWS cloud best practices. OpenSecOps Foundation is a turn-key solution, the components of which usually take years to develop from scratch. ​It's equally suitable for startups as for enterprises with existing systems.

OpenSecOps SOAR

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 OpenSecOps SOAR takes your security work to the next level by providing continuous monitoring, automated incident handling and remediation of security issues. OpenSecOps SOAR actively maintains your desired security posture and saves substantial costs.

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