What does a security transformation strategy look like and how can SOAR help

Security teams are continually faced with increasing and diverse pressures. This is evident now more than ever before. If it is not the ever evolving threat landscape, business or digital transformation initiatives, limited resources and budgets, there is nothing like throwing a global pandemic into the equation, forcing a rapid change to not only business models but also the most large scale, rapid shift to remote work we are ever likely to see.

With all this happening, what strategies can we put in place to not only leverage technologies such as SOAR, but enable security teams to become more proactive, effective and efficient at doing what they need to do? SOAR presents possibly the biggest opportunity security operations teams have ever had to enable much broader transformation of their function and capabilities. During this session, we will look at ways to incorporate SOAR to not only reduce the load on your security operations team, but also what strategies can be put in place to improve overall detection and response capabilities. We will analyze how to get the most out of a technology platform with the right processes and methodologies.

We will outline ways in which to measure and track your performance during this process, and in the longer term, in order to help demonstrate the results and justify further investment. Remember, the overall objective with SOAR is not just to do things faster, but to also free up our resources to improve our overall effectiveness. Being able to measure all aspects of SOC operations is key in knowing where to focus and demonstrate the results of your transformation strategy.

Panel members include: James Young, Jess Dodson, Casey Ellis and Anthony Kitzelmann.