How FortiSOAR Can Help MSSPs Provide Differentiated Service Portfolios
focus on more critical tasks. Below are four key use cases that demonstrate the immediate value FortiSOAR offers to SOC teams:
- Unified SOC Workbench
FortiSOAR simplifies SOC operations by integrating point security solutions into a centralized orchestration system that can be seamlessly deployed across network environments. This enables SOC teams to operate FortiSOAR with existing security solutions, providing a centralized point of visibility and control. Furthermore, it helps eliminate ecosystem fragmentation while also extending the life of existing tools, maximizing the return on investment for those purchases.
- Automated Alert Triage
FortiSOAR aggregates security alerts while also providing threat context, helping accelerate time to resolution. This reduces the number of “false-positive” alerts and enables threat prioritization based on severity levels, assigned tasks and subroutines. Using automation, FortiSOAR simplifies complex exchange-to-exchange tasks such as triage, enrichment, investigation and remediation by correlating alerts from across a security stack. These integration and automation capabilities help eliminate many of the burdens associated with alert fatigue, reducing SOC team workloads.
- Augmenting the SOC to Accelerate Incident Response
Having multiple manual workflows can impede alert investigations by increasing the risk of human oversight. FortiSOAR remedies this threat by augmenting the SOC using it’s automation features while working off of products such as FortiAnalyzer and FortiSIEM. This enables robust orchestration and automation of all SOC processes, improving overall security.
By automating the SOC, security teams can increase operational efficiency, as well. Where it makes sense, SOC teams can set threshold conditions at which FortiSOAR will immediately leverage different controls to achieve an optimal threat response. This allows SOC teams to reduce incident response time by as much as 98% as FortiSOAR automated processes can complete various manual tasks in a total of 20 minutes, on average.
- Unburdening Limited SOC Team Resources
Using automation, FortiSOAR reduces manual labor and the time and costs associated with security incident response. As threats become more sophisticated, increased SOC efficiency will play a key role in reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for network security. FortiSOAR works to reduce staff burden by allowing SOC teams to set customized security playbooks and responses as they relate to their specific frameworks and requirements. This minimizes manual input during alert triage, threat responses, reducing the overall workload.
Final Thoughts
With FortiSOAR integrated into their service delivery platform, MSSPs are able to offer hyper responsive, customized services with optimum security efficacy that actively address the challenges SOC teams face as a result of the expanding attack surface. As the market for SOAR grows, FortiSOAR ensures that MSSPs are able to provide differentiated services that allow them to take advantage of new sales opportunities.
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