The Convergence of DFIR and SOAR: Let’s Comprehend!

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The fact that the implementation of Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) is one of the primacies among SOC, CSIRTs, law enforcement, and enterprises shouldn’t be overlooked. Because, as the menace regarding the security continues to evolve, the need for DFIR to crank it up a notch to stop persistently evolving cyber-attacks is the need of the hour.

That said to understand why DFIR needs to be improved with related security-enhancing technologies such as SOAR, you must attend DFIR event or DFIR conference that are organized frequently to aware companies about the various matters related to digital forensics and electronic discovery (eDiscovery), including leading investigations.

In this article, however, the need to figure out the vast benefits that can arise from the convergence of DFIR and SOAR will be discussed.

Ways SOAR Improves the Functionality of DFIR

DFIR covers everything from legally depicting the incident responses to forming an actionable reaction to the incident. There are areas in the DFIR strategy, however, that can and must be improved by SOAR solutions like IncMan DFIR, which are mainly crafted to compensate for the shortages of DFIR solutions.

Automating Digital Forensics

SOAR lets the DFIR teams to improve their consistency, speed as well as accuracy in incident detection and helps them to enrich the process of collecting data overall. All this can be done by applying automation into the incident response plans.

Support Complex Incidents

SOAR offers DFIR teams with prompt access to an inclusive knowledge base and progressive management functionality. This in turn enables DFIR teams to speed up the process of performing incident response, collective evidences and recording the full incidents of life-cycle.

Protecting Cloud Premises

Mostly every company nowadays has shifted to cloud, whether partially or fully. And for companies that fully function on cloud, agility is the essence.

That said DFIR solutions need cloud-adjusted SOAR technologies to ensure maximum efficiency in finding artifacts and managing threats.

Bottom line is, while DFIR establishes the seamless incident response plans SOAR ensures to accomplish the same plans at any optimal level without any slipups. Therefore, by bringing SOAR in to the equation, DFIR team will be able to minimize human errors, improve incident response time, minimalize the damage caused by incidents and advance the productivity of all team members.

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