When organizations build their workforce, no matter what department or job function, they try to hire enough people and skill sets to get the job done. In doing so, they attempt to build a team that can withstand the stress and strain that comes with the job. But as we know, business is dynamic and inevitably the pressure, stress, and strain can eventually weigh heavily on team members.
How automation builds tensile strength
Tensile strength is the maximum stress a material can handle before breaking when it is stretched or pulled. Tensile strength determines a material’s mechanical performance and ability to resist tearing due to tension. To relieve tensile strain in metal it is heated to very high temperatures.
Tension and strain in the workforce, when stress can really heat things up, can find relief in automation to take on repetitive and time-consuming tasks. When security teams are liberated from endless manual repetitive activities, they are free to focus on more productive and meaningful initiatives with greater resilience.
Automation relieves worker stress
Cybercriminals increasingly rely upon automation to deploy new threats faster. In response, security defenders should also increase their use of automation to conduct faster detection, analysis, and incident mitigation.
Automating cybersecurity processes can strengthen an organization’s security posture with less human inputs and involvement. Security orchestration with automated responses between security products is becoming a business imperative. According to a cybersecurity automation adoption survey by ThreatQuotient, 95% of organizations have already automated some of their cybersecurity processes.
Automating routine tasks, such as log management, frees security analysts to work on threat hunting and incident response. Additionally, automation can eliminate risks associated with manual processes and human errors that open new attack surfaces that can lead to security breaches.
Monotonous repetitive tasks and tedious manual work can test the mettle of security personnel, diminishing an otherwise fulfilling and rewarding job. Without the speed and efficiency of automation, it can be impossible for teams to respond fast enough to all the alerts and accumulated threat intelligence from different threat vectors to provide a reliable defense. Automation gives organizations the ability to conduct threat detection and response at scale.
Cybersecurity automation enables the rapid defense to:
- Quickly detect threats across the entire IT environment
- Rapidly triage potential threats
- Determine the most appropriate action to contain or mitigate threats
- Execute mitigation actions
- Reducing false positives
Automated processes allow workers to bear up under the daily onslaught of threat activity and focus on more strategic projects, without getting bogged down. Security automation streamlines the integration of security applications, processes, and infrastructure while helping an organization eliminate unnecessary stress factors. Automated processes should be deployed wherever they can save time, increase accuracy, and add value.
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Originally published by www.revbits.com
