1 1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:02,070 SOAR! 2 2 00:00:02,070 --> 00:00:03,570 Now, when I talk about SOAR, 3 3 00:00:03,570 --> 00:00:05,970 I'm not talking about soaring like a bird. 4 4 00:00:05,970 --> 00:00:08,640 No, SOAR is an acronym, and it stands 5 5 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,940 for the Security Orchestration Automation and Response, 6 6 00:00:11,940 --> 00:00:13,860 also known as SOAR. 7 7 00:00:13,860 --> 00:00:15,450 This is a class of security tools 8 8 00:00:15,450 --> 00:00:17,430 that helps facilitate incident response, 9 9 00:00:17,430 --> 00:00:19,650 threat hunting and security configurations 10 10 00:00:19,650 --> 00:00:22,050 by orchestrating and automating runbooks 11 11 00:00:22,050 --> 00:00:24,120 and delivering data enrichment. 12 12 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:28,050 Basically, think about this as a SIEM version 2.0. 13 13 00:00:28,050 --> 00:00:29,310 Now, when you're dealing with SOAR, 14 14 00:00:29,310 --> 00:00:31,680 SOAR is primarily used for incident response, 15 15 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:33,030 but there is a large part of it 16 16 00:00:33,030 --> 00:00:35,070 that's used for threat hunting as well. 17 17 00:00:35,070 --> 00:00:37,440 But really the number one place you're going to see SOAR used 18 18 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,630 is incident response because it can automate 19 19 00:00:39,630 --> 00:00:41,100 so many of your actions. 20 20 00:00:41,100 --> 00:00:44,790 Now, as I said, I like to think about this as SIEM 2.0. 21 21 00:00:44,790 --> 00:00:47,190 Essentially, it's a next-generation SIEM. 22 22 00:00:47,190 --> 00:00:48,840 This takes a security information 23 23 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,630 and event monitoring system and integrates it in with SOAR. 24 24 00:00:51,630 --> 00:00:53,070 And when you put those two together, 25 25 00:00:53,070 --> 00:00:55,800 this really does become your next-generation SIEM. 26 26 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:57,960 Just like when you deal with next-generation firewalls, 27 27 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,810 they took you from dealing with layer three and layer four 28 28 00:01:00,810 --> 00:01:02,640 and brought you all the way up to layer seven. 29 29 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,340 It made it just so much better and so much more capable. 30 30 00:01:05,340 --> 00:01:08,160 Same thing here, when you integrate a SOAR in with a SIEM, 31 31 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,260 you get this really awesome product. 32 32 00:01:10,260 --> 00:01:12,570 It's going to give you the ability to scan security 33 33 00:01:12,570 --> 00:01:15,390 and threat data to be able to identify different things. 34 34 00:01:15,390 --> 00:01:17,640 You can then analyze it using machine learning, 35 35 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:19,710 and then you can also automate the process 36 36 00:01:19,710 --> 00:01:21,870 of doing data enrichment to make that data 37 37 00:01:21,870 --> 00:01:23,790 inside that SIEM even more powerful 38 38 00:01:23,790 --> 00:01:25,530 for you as an analyst to use. 39 39 00:01:25,530 --> 00:01:27,600 And, finally, you can do incident response. 40 40 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,520 So you can provision new resources. 41 41 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:31,020 That means you can create new accounts. 42 42 00:01:31,020 --> 00:01:32,580 You can create new VMs. 43 43 00:01:32,580 --> 00:01:34,440 If you're using VDI, you can actually delete 44 44 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:36,930 somebody's infected box and then create 45 45 00:01:36,930 --> 00:01:38,790 a new virtual machine for them to use. 46 46 00:01:38,790 --> 00:01:41,460 And all this can be done using automated playbooks 47 47 00:01:41,460 --> 00:01:43,920 if you use the SOAR capability. 48 48 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:45,150 Now, when we talk about this, 49 49 00:01:45,150 --> 00:01:46,410 I just mentioned the word playbook. 50 50 00:01:46,410 --> 00:01:47,940 What exactly is that? 51 51 00:01:47,940 --> 00:01:49,920 Well, a playbook is essentially a checklist 52 52 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:51,600 of actions that you're going to perform 53 53 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,390 to detect and respond to a specific type of incident. 54 54 00:01:54,390 --> 00:01:57,000 So if you said, "Hey, if I have an alert that says 55 55 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,140 there is a phishing campaign 56 56 00:01:58,140 --> 00:02:00,000 and somebody clicked a link on this machine," 57 57 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,920 we're going to do steps one through 10. 58 58 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:03,600 And then we're going to re-image their machine, 59 59 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:05,010 and we're going to give them a new computer. 60 60 00:02:05,010 --> 00:02:06,450 That might be your steps. 61 61 00:02:06,450 --> 00:02:08,250 So, for example, if you have somebody who clicked 62 62 00:02:08,250 --> 00:02:10,050 on a link in this phishing campaign, 63 63 00:02:10,050 --> 00:02:12,157 you might have steps one through five which says, 64 64 00:02:12,157 --> 00:02:14,700 "Go to the machine. Isolate it from the network. 65 65 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:17,490 Do a virus scan to make sure they haven't infected themself. 66 66 00:02:17,490 --> 00:02:19,350 Check the registry to make sure there's nothing in there 67 67 00:02:19,350 --> 00:02:22,650 for persistency, and then back up all the user data, 68 68 00:02:22,650 --> 00:02:25,500 reformat the computer, and then reinstall the computer 69 69 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:27,270 and put their data back on." 70 70 00:02:27,270 --> 00:02:29,160 These might be the actions you're going to do. 71 71 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,110 Now, these could be manual or automated, 72 72 00:02:31,110 --> 00:02:32,430 but in the case of a playbook, 73 73 00:02:32,430 --> 00:02:35,070 usually you're talking about just the steps involved. 74 74 00:02:35,070 --> 00:02:36,900 Now, if I can automate a lot of that, 75 75 00:02:36,900 --> 00:02:38,460 that becomes a runbook. 76 76 00:02:38,460 --> 00:02:41,040 Now a runbook is an automated version of a playbook, 77 77 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,080 and it leaves clearly defined interaction points 78 78 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:44,460 for human analysis. 79 79 00:02:44,460 --> 00:02:46,447 For example, my SOAR might say, 80 80 00:02:46,447 --> 00:02:48,540 "If somebody clicks a link in a phishing email, 81 81 00:02:48,540 --> 00:02:50,520 do these steps, one through five. 82 82 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,460 When you get to step two, pause, send it to an analyst, 83 83 00:02:53,460 --> 00:02:55,140 who will then say, re-image the machine 84 84 00:02:55,140 --> 00:02:57,000 or don't re-image the machine." 85 85 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:58,500 These are the ways that we can use these things, 86 86 00:02:58,500 --> 00:03:01,020 and they all work together to create a better environment 87 87 00:03:01,020 --> 00:03:03,330 and to help reduce the workload of our analysts, 88 88 00:03:03,330 --> 00:03:04,860 because again, we only have 89 89 00:03:04,860 --> 00:03:06,450 so many cybersecurity professionals, 90 90 00:03:06,450 --> 00:03:08,070 and if we're having them waste their time 91 91 00:03:08,070 --> 00:03:10,500 on very minor things that we can automate, 92 92 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:11,790 that's not very helpful to us. 93 93 00:03:11,790 --> 00:03:14,070 So, instead, we want to automate what we can 94 94 00:03:14,070 --> 00:03:16,570 and SOAR allows us to do a lot of that automation.