Security teams face more alerts, systems and routine tasks than people can handle manually. Automation uses scripts and tools to perform repetitive tasks consistently and quickly, and orchestration connects many tools so they work together in a defined sequence. Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) platforms bring these together for security operations, running playbooks that respond to alerts in seconds instead of hours. Security+ covers both the benefits and the risks of automation, and the concept of playbooks and runbooks.
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