Chapter 7

Automating response

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) is defined as a solution stack of compatible software programs that allow an organization to collect data about security threats from multiple sources and respond to low-level security events without human assistance.

In Microsoft Sentinel, you can leverage automation rules and Playbooks—which is a direct integration with Logic Apps—to perform SOAR for Incidents that are created in your environment. Automation rules are a way to automate incident handling to perform simple tasks like assigning the incident to SOC personnel. Automation rules can also call Playbooks that provide the ability to build flows that can automate your investigations and respond to security ...

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