Building Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) playbooks has been a time-consuming process for many teams. It requires users to deeply understand their SOAR platforms, investing countless hours into building, testing, and redesigning workflows. This steep learning curve often limits the value that SOAR teams can extract, as training new personnel and maintaining these playbooks consume significant resources.
While some SOAR vendors are beginning to introduce automated playbook development, these solutions come with clear limitations:
- Simplicity Over Sophistication: Due to constraints in scalability and playbook engine speed, the workflows generated are typically very simple. Complex playbooks could overwhelm these platforms, hindering their ability to execute at scale.
- Overlooking Critical Factors: Many automated solutions do not account for essential elements such as privacy laws, MITRE ATT&CK® best practices, or specialized disciplines like forensic investigations.
The consequences of these limitations are significant. The generated playbooks often fail to meet the advanced needs of a mature Security Operations Center (SOC). This inadequacy forces users to rebuild playbooks from scratch, resulting in end products that differ significantly from the initial outputs calling into question the value of the feature to begin with. Moreover, playbooks that do not adhere to privacy laws expose organizations to legal risks and potential damage to their reputation.
The Ace AI Difference
D3 Security’s intelligent automation assistant for Smart SOAR, Ace AI, addresses these challenges head-on by incorporating all of your requirements, restraints, and goals into its automatic playbook development process. Unlike competitors that merely assemble step-by-step automation based on user prompts, Ace AI is trained and integrated with incident response and vendor integration knowledge to generate the best workflows for your organization. It combines the expertise of incident responders, privacy lawyers, compliance experts, forensic analysts, and automation engineers into one intelligent system.
Here’s how Ace AI stands apart:
- Intelligent Workflow Generation: Ace AI leverages its integrated incident response and vendor knowledge to design optimal workflows, setting it apart from competitors that rely on basic automation.
- Automated Playbook Testing: Before deployment, Ace AI validates playbooks through specific test cases, ensuring operational readiness.
- Comprehensive Requirement Gathering: Ace AI takes all your requirements into consideration before building your playbook. This includes your tools, key performance indicators (KPIs), compliance requirements, and more.
- Unlimited Scalability: Not constrained by playbook size or scalability, Ace AI can output complex workflows that other platforms can’t support.
- Expertise Consolidation: It combines the knowledge of incident responders, privacy lawyers, compliance experts, forensic analysts, and automation engineers into one intelligent system.
With these advancements, you can maximize your SOAR tool’s potential by eliminating the time wasted on rebuilding playbooks, allowing you to fully leverage your SOAR capabilities. This means your team can focus on strategic security initiatives such as implementing processes to automatically dismiss false positives, effectively responding to true positives, and involving cross-functional teams outside of your security operations center to strengthen your overall security posture. These are the areas where your expertise is most valuable, and Ace AI enables you to dedicate time to them.
Playbook Development = Solved
Ace AI simplifies playbook development by automating the process without compromising on capability. By shifting its focus to requirement gathering, Ace AI outputs end-to-end playbooks that are compliant and ready to be used. Its simple interface lets users create playbooks in hours, instead of weeks saving you valuable time and resources.
Ace AI also automatically creates specific test cases to confirm that each playbook is fully operational before deployment. This ensures that your playbooks function flawlessly in production, saving time and reducing the risk of errors.
Ace AI revolutionizes SOAR playbook development by eliminating widespread limitations in automatic playbook development. By considering all your requirements and not being limited by scalability, Ace AI delivers comprehensive playbooks that meet the needs of even the most mature SOCs.
