modern soar
Modern SOAR: Describe the Playbook, Get the Playbook.
As of 2026, a modern SOAR is security orchestration you build in plain English instead of code. You describe the response you want, the platform drafts the playbook, and your team reviews and approves it before it ever runs. Analysts build the automation themselves. D3 Morpheus delivers that builder, plus 800+ integrations, on day one.
Morpheus modernizes the SOAR layer your team already depends on. Analysts describe what should happen. The platform drafts a deterministic playbook. A named human approves it before runtime, every time.
the builder
Write the Playbook the Way You Would Explain It
Plain English goes in. A reviewable, deterministic playbook comes out.
Type what you want to happen. “When a phishing report lands in the shared mailbox, pull the headers, detonate the attachment, check the sender against our threat intel, and open a ticket if anything comes back malicious.” The natural language playbook builder turns that sentence into a structured playbook with named steps, real integrations, and explicit branches.
Your analysts read the draft the way they read a runbook. Every step is visible. Every input and output is labelled. To change something, an analyst edits the plain-language description and regenerates, or edits the step directly in the canvas.
The people who know your response process are now the people who write it. Institutional knowledge moves out of one engineer’s head and into the platform, where the whole shift can read it, edit it, and improve it.
The Trust Anchor: AI Drafts It, Determinism Runs It
Writing a playbook and running a playbook are two different jobs. Morpheus keeps them separate on purpose.
AI writes the first draft. That is where the AI’s job ends. What ships to production is a deterministic workflow, the same kind an engineer would have built by hand, and it executes the same way every time it fires.
Nothing generated goes live on its own. A named human reviews the draft, edits it, and approves it. Approval happens before runtime. At 3 a.m. on a Saturday, the playbook firing against your environment is the one your team signed off on in daylight.
Every draft, edit, and approval lands in one audit trail with a name and a timestamp on it. When an auditor asks who authorized a piece of automation, you show them the record.
why this matters
Generated automation that reaches production without review is a governance problem waiting for an incident. Morpheus puts the approval gate in front of runtime, so the reviewed version is the only version that ever executes.
What human-approved before runtime actually means
Four things hold true for every playbook Morpheus drafts.
- A human reviews the full step list, including error handling and rollback, before the playbook can be enabled.
- Approval is recorded against a named user with a timestamp, and it binds to one specific version of the playbook.
- Any edit creates a new version that needs its own approval, so a playbook cannot drift quietly between reviews.
- Execution stays deterministic. The same alert with the same inputs produces the same steps, run after run.
SOAR Without the Engineers You Do Not Have
Automation coverage should scale with the analysts you already employ.
No-code by construction
Every step in the library is a configured action with a form, typed inputs, and a documented output. Analysts assemble, review, and approve. Your developers stay on the work only developers can do.
800+ integrations, already built
Connect the stack you run today and the tools you buy next year. Morpheus ships 800+ integrations, which makes adding a tool a configuration task rather than a development cycle.
Bring the playbooks you already have
Porting scripts read the playbooks and reports in your current platform and rebuild them inside Morpheus. D3 runs the migration as a fixed-scope program with a defined finish line.
Here is what changes, job by job, when the SOAR layer gets modern.
| Job to be done | Legacy SOAR platforms | Modern SOAR with D3 Morpheus |
|---|---|---|
| Build a new playbook | A scripting project scoped to an engineer’s calendar | Describe it in plain English, review the draft, approve it |
| Change an existing playbook | A change request that queues behind the roadmap | An analyst edits the description and re-approves the new version |
| Decide who can build | Whoever knows the syntax | Any analyst on the shift |
| Add a tool to the stack | A connector build with its own timeline | Configure one of 800+ integrations |
| Prove who authorized an action | Evidence stitched together from several systems | One audit trail across the builder, the approvals, and every run |
| Get agentic investigation | Typically a second product on a second contract | Included in the platform, switched on at your pace |
| Budget for AI usage | Typically an added line item alongside the renewal | The AI is in the platform price, not on a usage meter |
Already Included: The Agentic Layer
You do not have to use it on day one. It sits in the platform, waiting for you.
Morpheus is the accountable agentic SOC platform, and the modern SOAR you have been reading about is part of it. Two products consolidated into one platform, one contract, and one audit trail. Buying the SOAR gets you the agentic layer at the same time.
Plenty of teams leave that layer dormant for their first few months, and D3 supports starting there. Automation coverage improves from the no-code builder alone. The agentic capability waits until your governance committee is ready to talk about it.
When you are ready, autonomy arrives in four phases. Every phase keeps a human approval gate. You move to the next phase when your own evidence says you should, and you can move back.
Phase one. Tier 1, Deterministic
Morpheus runs only the playbooks your team approved. Behaviour matches the SOAR your analysts already understand. Most teams spend this phase migrating, tuning, and getting familiar with the audit trail.
Phase two. Tier 2, AI-Assisted
Morpheus investigates in the background and hands the analyst a written finding with the evidence attached. The analyst still makes every call. Every action waits for a human click.
Phase three. Tier 3, AI-Led
Morpheus proposes the response and executes it once an approver signs off. You choose which alert types qualify and which actions stay on the hold list. Per-action approval gates remain in force for anything that touches production.
Phase four. Tier 4, Autonomous
Morpheus closes the alert categories you have explicitly authorized, inside the boundaries you set, writing every decision to the audit trail. You keep a standing kill switch, and the categories you held back still route to a human.
what the agentic layer does at full depth
Teams running the agentic layer see 18 minutes MTTR vs 4 to 6 weeks. Morpheus investigates up to 95% of alerts at L2 depth in under two minutes, with 98% triage accuracy. When Morpheus is uncertain, it defers to a human.
Three Things You Get to Keep
Noise Down, Security Up.
Quiet the Queue
Automation coverage grows because your analysts can finally build it themselves. The queue gets shorter every week the builder is in use, before you touch a single autonomy setting.
Keep Control
Four autonomy tiers, per-action approval gates, and one audit trail spanning the SOAR and the agentic layer. Every automated decision produces evidence for your internal audit and control reviews.
Know Your Bill
Platform Subscription + User Licenses = Your Expected Cost. The AI is in the platform price, not on a usage meter, so finance can model next year before you sign this year.
the renewal math
The budget for this already exists. D3 prices the accountable agentic SOC platform with full SOAR against what you were going to spend renewing your SOAR. Platform Subscription + User Licenses = Your Expected Cost, and the AI is in the platform price, not on a usage meter. For per-alert economics, the public benchmark is The $0.97 Standard.
Renewal inside the next nine months?
Book the 20-minute renewal-math call. We read your current contract line by line against a Morpheus quote and you leave with the comparison in writing.
faqs
Frequently Asked Questions
What buyers ask before they modernize a SOAR platform.
What is a modern SOAR?
A modern SOAR is security orchestration and automated response that an analyst can build without writing code. As of 2026 the defining features are a natural language playbook builder, a large pre-built integration library, deterministic execution, and human approval before a playbook reaches production. D3 Morpheus delivers all four, with 800+ integrations.
Can AI write SOAR playbooks?
Yes. In D3 Morpheus you describe the response you want in plain English and the platform drafts a structured playbook with named steps, integrations, and branches. The draft is a starting point. A named human reviews it, edits it, and approves it before it can run, and that approval is recorded in the audit trail.
Are AI-generated playbooks safe to run in production?
They are safe when generation and execution stay separate. Morpheus uses AI only to draft. What executes is a deterministic workflow that behaves the same way every time, and it only executes after a human approves that specific version. Any later edit creates a new version that needs its own approval.
What is the easiest SOAR to use?
The easiest SOAR to use is the one your analysts can operate without a developer. Look for a natural language playbook builder, configured actions instead of code steps, a large pre-built integration library, and version control with approvals built in. Those four things decide whether automation coverage grows or stalls.
Can you use SOAR without engineers or developers?
Yes. With a no-code SOAR, analysts describe playbooks in plain language, review the generated steps, and approve them. Every action in the library is a configured form with typed inputs and documented outputs, so there is no script to maintain. Your developers stay on work only developers can do.
How does a natural language playbook builder work?
You type a description of the response, for example detonating an attachment and opening a ticket when the result is malicious. The builder maps that description onto real integrations and produces a step-by-step playbook you can read. You then edit the description or the steps, and approve the version you want live.
Do I have to turn on AI agents to use a modern SOAR?
No. In D3 Morpheus the agentic layer ships with the platform and stays dormant until you enable it. Many teams run phase one, Tier 1 Deterministic, for months and get their coverage gains from the no-code builder alone. You enable autonomy on your own schedule and you can step back a phase.
How do I migrate my existing SOAR playbooks?
D3 uses porting scripts that read the playbooks and reports in your current platform and rebuild them inside Morpheus. The migration runs as a fixed-scope program with a defined finish line, so you know the end date before it starts. Rebuilt playbooks go through the same human approval gate as new ones.
