4 Ways To Integrate Automation Into Cyber Security
Cyber security automation accelerates data collection and makes processes more effective. It incorporates machine learning methods into the system to enhance your organization’s analytic functions and eliminate time-consuming processes. With the fast-evolving cyberattacks and device proliferation, automation can help you keep up with cyber criminals by speeding up responses faster than traditional software-driven or manual methods.
If you want to provide your organization with impenetrable defenses, a cyber security system must also be a part of your IT process automation. Cyber security technologies can quickly analyze millions of data sets and track down cyber risks, from malicious malware to shady human-machine interaction.
As hackers conduct incredibly complex cyber-attacks, you must know how to use automation to counter their threats. Here are ways you can integrate automation into your cyber security system:
- Improve Incident Response Time And Risk Mitigation
Because security analysts can only investigate a small percentage of the data received, responding in real-time is unlikely. Organizations require solutions and processes to address events more quickly, lowering overall incident time.
If your security team is becoming overburdened by too many alerts, you can use security orchestration and automation response (SOAR) technology. SOAR stands for a set of solutions that improve your security operations and incident response by automating repetitive work and organizing technology, people, and procedures to their maximum potential.
Moreover, SOAR employs cognitive technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to learn from existing risks and assist against future ones. Your team does not have to be tied up with monotonous tasks. Instead, they can patch your system’s vulnerabilities since SOAR has already identified the risks.
Meanwhile, you can establish additional guidelines for dealing with security threats and connect these guidelines to your security automation tool. You are ensuring a repeatable, streamlined, and auditable security operations process that will assist security teams in speeding up incident response and mitigating risk. Actions could include, for example, the following:
- Removing a potentially malicious file
- Using an IP address to locate the source of an attack
- Looking for files on a specific endpoint
- Blocking a URL on perimeter devices.
- Handle Large Volume Of Data Effectively
Every day, a large amount of data is processed between customers and enterprises. This information must be protected against malicious software and hackers. However, cybersecurity specialists are unable to inspect all traffic for potential threats.
Meanwhile, data are useless until it is structured. To analyze data effectively, companies must first collect threat data from security systems within their infrastructure. Then, they can include global threat intelligence from other sources.
Robotic process automation (RPA) provides a ready-to-use and effective answer to this data management problem. RPA helps in several ways, including allowing your organization to automate periodic reporting and perform other data-dependent tasks. Developers can use RPA to give the appropriate data to the automation processes in a timely and accurate manner.
Furthermore, RPA can be used to analyze data and predict the next step of the attacker. In this method, more data collected results in more accurate results and reduces the possibility that the groups identified an anomaly. With its sufficient computing power to scale today’s threat volume, you need to have RPA to make data sequencing faster, more effective, and more accurate.
- Simulate Attacks
Simulation can replicate real-world security threats to assist organizations in developing incident response plans and identifying potential security weaknesses. These simulated attacks could include sending phishing emails to employees or attempting to hack a company’s web application firewall.
It can be hard to measure the efficacy of security activities without simulated attacks. To assist organizations to prepare and evaluate their security against all types of attacks, simulations can replicate diverse dangers to different surface regions in unique contexts.
However, conducting simulated attacks and penetration tests is another aspect of security that consumes time. Performing simulations can affect your day-to-day operations. Thus, you need to automate this process.
Nowadays, breach and attack simulation software tools are widely available. Software tools such as dynamic application security testing tools and vulnerability scanners are typically capable of performing penetration tests or simulating attacks. Using AI, these software applications can speed up the simulation without disrupting your operations.
- Manage APIs and Certificates
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the industry standard for securing internet connections. It protects any sensitive data communicated between two systems, preventing criminals from viewing and altering the data provided, including potentially personal information.
An application programming interface (API), on the other hand, is a software-to-software interface that enables applications to communicate with one another without the need for human intervention. To automate certificate lifecycle management, APIs are used to manage SSL encryption.
As an organization, your certificates guarantee your customers that your website is trustworthy. That’s why you need to identify the certificates you have issued or have been issued to you. You must ensure that your keys and certificates are protected. However, manually managing hundreds or thousands of certificates and keys can be tedious.
To automate your certificate management, you can utilize certificate management platforms that can perform:
- Certificate request
- Order status verification
- Certificate renewal
- Certificate revoking
- Certificate update
Leveraging Security
Cyber security offers significant benefits that outweigh many of the technology’s drawbacks. With automation, you can leverage your defenses even further. In a world where cybercriminals can lurk and launch an attack anytime, you can make your organization more secure.
