Security Automation

SOAR platforms, playbook automation, orchestration, and incident response automation.

Overview

Security automation accelerates response and reduces manual effort.

SOAR Capabilities

Playbook Example

# Phishing response playbook
name: phishing_response
trigger:
  type: email_reported
steps:
  - action: extract_iocs
    inputs:
      - email_attachments
      - email_links
  
  - action: check_reputation
    inputs:
      - iocs
    conditions:
      - malicious: block_sender
      - clean: close_ticket
  
  - action: block_sender
    inputs:
      - sender_email
  
  - action: notify_user
    inputs:
      - reporter
      - message: "Phishing email has been blocked"

Automation Scripts

# IOC enrichment
def enrich_ioc(ioc):
    results = {
        "virustotal": check_virustotal(ioc),
        "abuseipdb": check_abuseipdb(ioc),
        "shodan": check_shodan(ioc)
    }
    return results

# Automated response
def auto_respond(alert):
    if alert.severity == "critical":
        isolate_endpoint(alert.endpoint)
        create_incident(alert)
        notify_soc(alert)
    elif alert.severity == "high":
        block_ip(alert.source_ip)
        create_ticket(alert)

Integration APIs

# Splunk integration
import splunklib.client as client

service = client.connect(
    host='splunk.example.com',
    port=8089,
    username='admin',
    password='password'
)

# Query alerts
results = service.jobs.oneshot(
    'search index=security status=blocked | head 10'
)

Metrics

Practice

Create an automated phishing response playbook.