Improving Incident Response with Cyber Fusion

It is impossible to manually examine all security alerts, investigate them, and respond to every cyber threat. To help address this challenge, the security industry is continuously developing tools and solutions to automate security incident response. The modern-day threat landscape demands threat response automation platforms that amalgamatecyber fusion capabilities to improve your cyber incident response plan, reducing the burden on your security team.

Role of Cyber Fusion in Incident Response

Without any human intervention, security automation powered with cyber fusion accelerates mundane security operations to detect and respond to threats and security incidents, improving your incident response capability and helping security teams build a steady defense mechanism. The influence of cyber fusion-driven incident response can be observed while identifying and responding to threats in real time. From collecting malware intelligence to implementing processes and resolving threats, cyber fusion empowers cyber security teams to effectively manage alerts without manual efforts.

Beefed with cyber fusion, incident response platforms empower not only security teams but SOC managers and CISOs alike. By automating the cyber incident response process, your security teams can invest their time in other channels such as improving network security or preventing future incidents.

Without automating the cybersecurity incident response process, they devote their valuable time manually sifting through multiple security tools looking for alerts of a data breach or other cyberattack that needs an actual response. The amount of time spent on gathering routine data subsequently increases their mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) to threats as it takes longer to distinguish the real threats from the noise. Cyber fusion enables security teams to focus on critical processes and accelerate data aggregation, equipping them with relevant information required for analysis.

Integrating cyber fusion with incident response allows security teams to yield better performances from their teams, building collective defense and enabling them to focus on more productive tasks. Consequently, this effective incident response planning leads to improved productivity throughout the security operations (SecOps) team, better KPIs, and reduced security talent turnover rate in security teams.

Before determining what security operations to automate, it is important to first organize existing manual incident response processes into playbooks. This makes an organization’s workflow more predictable, resulting in improved consistency and efficiency. Once processes are organized in a consistent way, it becomes easier to identify the steps and tasks that require automation to accelerate incident response and unburden teams to focus on tasks demanding expertise.

The Need for Cyber Fusion in Incident Response

By offering automated playbooks that seamlessly integrate incident response workflows, cyber fusion empowers security teams to carry out SecOps across different environments—on-premise and cloud—at machine speed, delivering quicker responses based on contextual threat data. It's a crucial part of your overall cyber threat intelligence plan.

Cyber Fusion and Analysis

The advanced cyber fusion capabilities strengthen collaboration between different security teams and provide 360-degree visibility into the adversaries’ behavior to deliver an improved incident response. Security teams can collect and correlate multi-sourced threat intelligence with malware, threat actors, vulnerability, and incident data in real-time to gather contextual intelligence for effective and adaptive incident response. Through advanced correlation and real-time analysis, strategic, tactical, and technical threat intelligence can be collected from disparate sources and operational intelligence can be deduced. Furthermore, cyber fusion-basedincident response playbooks help to connect the dots between isolated threats and incidents, establishing hidden threat patterns and accelerating threat actor tracking. It can support frameworks such as MITRE’s ATT&CK, using which threat actor footprints can be identified and tracked by mapping the tactics and techniques against reported incidents.

Integrated Threat Response

In today’s continuously evolving threat landscape, depending on only incident management to respond to all kinds of threats falls short. By adopting a cyber fusion-driven strategy, organizations can establish a more holistic approach toward incident response. Moving beyond incident management, security teams can respond to all types of malware, vulnerabilities, and threat actors by using integrated threat databases. With cyber fusion-powered collaboration between different security teams, incident triage, investigation, and actioning can be managed within an automated response workflow for a 360-degree response.

Security teams can build a single database of vulnerabilities to track, mitigate, and correlate incidents, malware, threat actors, and assets. By tracking and monitoring malware-related activities from a single-window database, the risk of a malware infection can be reduced and detection parameters for indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics and techniques can be examined.

Triage and Case Management Workflow

SecOps teams can contextualize and prioritize potential risks in real-time with integrated triage and case management workflows by leveraging cyber fusion technology in incident response. The cyber fusion capabilities allow security teams to manage various related incidents/threats from a single platform by using threat intelligence ingestion and workflow automation to reduce false alarms, noise, and overall MTTR. With streamlined post-detection and incident triage systems powered with data enhancement, intel enrichment, and advanced correlation processes, security teams can reduce false alarms and analyst fatigue.

Advanced Security Orchestration and Automation

Cyber fusion brings together SecOps and intel teams for proactive threat hunting, quicker incident response, and solution development. Security teams can leverage an extensive library of advanced playbooks and automate responses to complex attacks. Incident response playbooks incorporate advanced orchestration and automation capabilities to automate and streamline triage and response by bi-directionally integrating TIPs, SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, Firewalls, and other tools. This allows security teams to take response and threat containment steps at machine speed with scope for manual intervention in unconventional situations.

Incident Analysis

With incident response playbooks, the what, why, and how of security incidents can be deeply analyzed. Cyber fusion enables security teams to embrace a structured process to perform the root cause analysis of incidents with intel enrichment, historical intelligence, and contextual correlations. Moreover, they can improve analyst decision-making, eliminate false positives, and utilize past learnings through incident correlation based on IOCs. Security teams can gain insights into the threat trends and patterns by connecting the dots between vulnerabilities, threat actors, incidents, malware, cost metrics, SLAs, and more.

Action Management and Tracking

Using incident response playbooks, security teams can assign, track and manage threat response and asset management operations. They can assign actions relevant to threats, response operations, mitigation tasks, and track them via efficient task management and action tracking systems. Moreover, SecOps teams can track the learnings from the incidents and asset enhancements, and trace and kick off investigations on threats and resources allocated to the threat response process. Through incident response playbooks, intelligence requirements can be prioritized for intel collectors and analysts to make informed decisions while ensuring all the necessary actions are taken to prevent future attacks.

Benefits of Cyber Fusion-Driven Incident Response

• Improved MTTD and MTTR:
• Better and Informed Decisions:
• Improved Collaboration:
• Low Operational Costs:

The Bottom Line

Cyber fusion is the answer to the concerns of security teams about the lack of skilled internal security staff and the threat that can cause damage to their organization’s reputation. Incident response powered with cyber fusion addresses these issues by ensuring security teams tap into the maximum workload potential of their teams and have processes in place that can quickly minimize the impact of a security incident.