Automation: the future of Security operations centers (SOCs)

Automation is an emerging trend for SOC (Security operations centers). Similar to Microsoft’s new security patch technology (Windows Autopatch), SOC automation intends to both improve an enterprise’s security posture and reduce the burden on security engineers and security analysts.

Manually chasing thousands of alerts every day is inefficient and frustrating for analysts, not to mention an opportunity for attacker exploitation. Modern SOC platforms can automatically ingest and manage a larger amount of data from more sources by using machine learning, threat intel, correlation, and rules for analysis.

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