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What is Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)?
Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response is a set of software tools that helps companies manage their digital security. It acts like a central command center that connects various security programs, such as firewalls and virus scanners, so they can talk to each other. When a potential threat appears, the system follows a pre-written digital checklist to investigate and neutralize the risk automatically. This reduces the need for human staff to manually click through dozens of different screens to stop a cyberattack.
Why this matters to you
It removes the burden of repetitive, manual security work from your IT team. By automating routine responses, your staff can focus on complex problems that require human judgment, which helps the company stay secure even when the volume of digital threats is high.
How you might hear this
Our IT department is implementing SOAR to ensure that our security team can respond to potential data breaches in seconds rather than hours.
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