This past June I presented a.conf22 session called “A Beginner’s Guide to SOAR: Automating the Basics” to address perceptions about SOAR adoption among security practitioners. This was my first in-person presentation to a live audience in several years because of the pandemic and I was encouraged to find that the session was among the highest attended at the event with well over 200 attendees in the room.
Tines empowers anyone to automate their manual work, regardless of complexity, without writing a single line of code. Many teams starting on their SOAR journey often don't know what processes can be automated and find it challenging to translate their manual work into software-based solutions. In cybersecurity, automating repetitive processes at scale is a relatively new idea with little public research to support it.
When everything is going well, it's pretty easy to plan and manage routine activities in any business process. But stress kicks in when we encounter an unexpected incident that risks radically damaging the functioning of the organization. It is quite difficult to decide what step to take under intense stress. An unexpected incident that breaks through the barriers of the cybersecurity posture can cause all digital functions of the organization to stop.
The SOAR market is undergoing a radical transformation fueled by the rise of best-in-class tools that are laser-focused on helping security teams to solve a core problem. Until recently, SOAR was driven by all-in-one solutions, claiming to be silver bullets but offering suboptimal functionality and user experiences.
