Security Orchestration, Automation and Response
Overview
Security Orchestration, Automation and Response is a hands-on course that teaches you to turn noisy alerts into consistent, measurable incident workflows. You’ll normalize events from diverse sources, design resilient playbooks, and integrate the tools your SOC already uses—SIEM, EDR, cloud and identity platforms, sandboxes, threat intel, and ITSM.
The class emphasizes reliability and safety (human-in-the-loop, approvals, kill switches), operational excellence (testing, simulation, metrics), and governance (RBAC, audit trails, versioning).
By the end, you’ll have the patterns and artifacts to automate triage and accelerate response without sacrificing control.
Duration
2 Days
Who Should Take This Course
Audience
SOC/SIEM Analysts/Engineers, Incident Responders, Detection Engineers, Architect/SRE/Platform Security.
Prerequisites
Basic scripting experience (Python or similar) and familiarity with security operations data (logs, alerts, cases) are recommended. Prior exposure to SIEM or ITSM tooling is helpful but not required.
Why You Should Take This Course
Upon completing Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR), participants will be able to:
- Map SOC workflows to SOAR capabilities and identify high-value automation opportunities
- Design, implement, and version controlled playbooks with triggers, branching logic, SLAs, and approval gates
- Integrate SOAR with SIEM, EDR, network sensors, cloud/identity platforms, ticketing/ITSM, and messaging tools
- Build reliable automations with idempotency, retries/backoff, rate limiting, error handling, and auditing
- Orchestrate enrichment and response actions (indicator triage, host isolation, credential reset, IP/domain blocking) safely and repeatably
- Measure SOC performance with KPIs (MTTD, MTTR, precision/recall of detections), dashboards, and continuous improvement loops
- Govern SOAR with RBAC, secrets management, change control, rollbacks, and compliance-aligned documentation