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Published inMay 2023
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Rebecca Blair
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Rebecca Blair

Rebecca Blair currently serves as the SOC Manager at a Boston-based tech company, where she is in the process of building out a SOC team to include analyst workflows, playbooks, and processes. Also, she served at IronNet as the Director of SOC Operations, at Tenable Inc as a Test Engineer, and at the Army Research Lab as a Technical Compliance Lead, among other things. She has deep expertise in technology integrations and security operations and holds a BS degree from Norwich University in Computer Security and Information Assurance, an MS degree from the University of Maryland Global Campus in Cybersecurity and an MBA from Villanova University. She has found a niche in building SOC environments and maturing them in fast-paced environments.
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Automation is the way

As mentioned in other chapters, every team should be looking to automate as much as possible. Doing so will allow your team to increase their coverage and the number of alerts that can be triaged. In some of the previous examples, we’ve discussed using a Search Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) tool, which automates triage and response actions. These are tools such as Splunk Phantom and Insight Connect. They allow you to customize actions such as gathering information, quarantining systems, or implementing blocks. One of the issues is that not all teams and organizations have the money to purchase SOAR tools, so they must look to other options for automation.

One option if you have a coding background is to create your own scripts to automate different features. One example is when an old team member created a Python script that took the nightly vulnerability data, created JIRA tickets for the new vulnerabilities, and captured mean time to...

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Rebecca Blair

Rebecca Blair currently serves as the SOC Manager at a Boston-based tech company, where she is in the process of building out a SOC team to include analyst workflows, playbooks, and processes. Also, she served at IronNet as the Director of SOC Operations, at Tenable Inc as a Test Engineer, and at the Army Research Lab as a Technical Compliance Lead, among other things. She has deep expertise in technology integrations and security operations and holds a BS degree from Norwich University in Computer Security and Information Assurance, an MS degree from the University of Maryland Global Campus in Cybersecurity and an MBA from Villanova University. She has found a niche in building SOC environments and maturing them in fast-paced environments.
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