“Purpose-built does not scale.” That’s what IDC says in its latest research report “How Hyperautomation Is Used to Reduce Gaps and Inefficiencies in Network Cybersecurity.” What does that mean? It means that your monitoring point products, like legacy SOAR, just don’t cut it any longer. They can’t scale in today’s hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments without piling on more tools, further fueling tech stack sprawl.

It wasn’t long ago that we at Torq proclaimed “SOAR is dead!” And it didn’t take long for the industry to catch on. Leading analyst firm GigaOm in its recent GigaOm Radar report named Torq a leader and an outperformer in the security automation market, namely for our hyperautomation capabilities that legacy SOAR just can’t touch. And our competitors have also started jumping on the hyperautomation bandwagon since we shifted our focus to this model.

In today's increasingly complex threat landscape, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face significant challenges in protecting their assets and reputation from cyber threats. We will explore the benefits of SOAR, its role in enhancing security operations, and its ability to mitigate risks, streamline incident response, and protect valuable business assets.

The threat landscape today is complex and constantly changing. Organizations require robust cybersecurity solutions to protect their networks and systems. SIEM and SOAR are two technologies that are pivotal in strengthening security operations. In this article, I’ll look at both technologies, SIEM and SOAR, to help you understand the importance of strengthening your organization’s SecOps.

Every investment in SOAR is accompanied with the hidden costs of onboarding and troubleshooting. The licensing structure SOAR brings to an organization is outdated and overpriced. The value of SOAR drastically declined when it transitioned its primary focus from being a force-multiplying automation solution to a glorified ticketing system still requiring countless professional service hours.

It comes as no surprise that analysts spend a lot of their time investigating and responding to a continuous flood of incidents on a daily basis. While the sheer volume of alerts alone make for a time consuming endeavor, trying to manually tackle so many of these alerts results in slow incident response and can trap your team into a series of reactive security operations.

SOAR is dead. At first glance, that might be a bold statement, but the writing’s on the wall. While SOAR may have been a thing in the past, it’s not built for hybrid cloud adoption at enterprise scale. Cue, Torq Hyperautomation. Here are 5 reasons why SOAR is dead.

As SOCs continue to grow and mature, it's vital that they establish effective and repeatable programs in proactive defense. This also means that threat hunting needs to become a critical function. Numerous advanced and sophisticated threats are able to get past more traditional cybersecurity defenses and SOCs need skilled Threat Hunters who are able to search, log, monitor, and remediate threats before they create a serious problem.