According to CrowdStrike's 2024 Global Threat Report, the fastest recorded time for a cybercrime breach was just 2 minutes and 7 seconds in 2023. This underscores the need to equip security analysts with modern tools that level the playing field and enable them to work more efficiently and effectively. .
Today's analysts need a new generation of security information and event management (SIEM) technology that can scale to manage petabytes of data, and work seamlessly with security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) capabilities to stop breaches.
CrowdStrike Falcon® Fusion SOAR, the no-code orchestration, automation and response capability built into the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, is now available to enable third-party data workflow automation with CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM. Legacy SIEM systems have failed at SOC, but Falcon Next-Gen SIEM offers a new approach to eliminating slow queries, complex structures, and costly data ingestion. With its new features and improvements, Falcon Fusion SOAR is well-positioned to help your security team realize the benefits that automation can provide.
Increase SOC efficiency and accuracy through workflow automation
Security automation is your secret weapon to stop attacks and improve your bottom line. It reduces the time needed to respond to threats, reduces the costs of integrating and operating tools, and improves job satisfaction for your security analysts by eliminating repetitive tasks, allowing the team to focus on higher-level responsibilities that cannot be automated.
Automation can significantly enhance the efficiency of a security operations center. While SIEM systems excel at detecting threats by analyzing massive amounts of data, they still force security analysts to manually sort through detections and filter out false positives. Many investigative tasks are repetitive and time-consuming, preventing teams from stopping real threats quickly. This is where SOAR steps in to enhance efficiency, drive discoveries to accuracy and create a continuous information loop.
Enhancing security operations from detection to action
The Falcon Fusion SOAR system reduces response times during an investigation — when every second counts. Not only does it improve the technical effectiveness of security operations by working as a cohesive unit, it also improves operational efficiency by breaking down information silos and eliminating delays in data transfer. It ensures seamless, bi-directional data flow between Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and Falcon Fusion SOAR to act on the latest information available, providing you with a real-time view of your security posture and a feedback loop for continuous improvement.
Falcon Fusion SOAR can query both Falcon platform data as well as third-party data in the Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to conduct further threat investigations and store the data, such as query results, ensuring security teams have the most up-to-date view of their software. Data. It also accelerates responses, as Falcon Fusion SOAR can execute workflows that are automated from Falcon Next-Gen SIEM detection, scheduled for continuous protection or launched on-demand in response to critical threats.
Additionally, Falcon Fusion SOAR has the ability to trigger workflow automation based on Falcon platform alerts and data, such as endpoint, cloud, and identity, as well as third-party data collected by the Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. This unified solution provides you with unparalleled visibility into your data and dramatically reduces the time spent detecting, investigating and responding.
Figure 1. Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of security operations with Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and Falcon Fusion SOAR.
Empower security teams with no-code workflow automation
Security analysts are often overwhelmed by the large number of alerts they must sort through and respond to. While workflow automation is a powerful tool that can streamline security operations, developing cumbersome playbooks can hinder progress. Implementing orchestration and automation requires clearly defined processes, a deep understanding of the technologies being orchestrated and knowledge of how to translate them into automated processes. Often, complex decisions require human involvement. Given the advanced skills required for playbooks and the scarcity of security talent, security teams need tools that prioritize the modern analyst experience and provide a significant advantage against adversaries.
As a native capability of Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, Falcon Fusion SOAR provides analysts with a unified experience that combines world-class security data with workflow automation to stop breaches. The newly redesigned workflow builder allows security analysts to easily visualize their workflows as they build them with an intuitive top-down flow for improved readability and ease of use. Analysts can simply select different building blocks without programming, making automation accessible to more novice analysts.
Figure 2. Deploy workflow automation in minutes using the new workflow builder interface.
Depending on the complexity of the workflow, it may only take a few minutes to build. Once the use case is defined, analysts need to define the trigger, define conditions, and configure actions. Falcon Fusion SOAR supports orchestration of complex use cases with conditional branching and logic, and by seamlessly integrating with Falcon Real Time Response (RTR) to perform any action on the endpoint. When key decision making and approvals are necessary, team members can be notified via email, Slack, or your preferred method of communication as part of the workflow.
To give your team a head start, Falcon Fusion SOAR offers a growing library of innovative playbooks for common use cases. These playbook templates can be easily customized to match your organization's policies and technology stack.
Falcon Fusion SOAR recently released a new phishing integration and playbook to help your team automatically respond to emails reported as phishing by employees in your organization. The workflow integrates with MS365, allowing Falcon Fusion to have read-only access to your organization's phishing inbox. When an email is reported as phishing, the workflow begins the investigation process by searching all components of the email to enrich them. If malicious indicators are identified, the workflow will quarantine or block the indicators, update third-party tools and generate custom IOCs to retroactively initiate the search.
Figure 3. Falcon Fusion SOAR's new phishing guide template will allow your team to deploy workflow automation as soon as an email is reported as a phishing email.
Improve incident response with workflow automation insights
Workflow automation helps security teams reduce mean time to response (MTTR) by collecting and enriching data, guiding analysts through investigations, coordinating, and automatically remediating attacks. It also reduces the risk of human error by taking consistent and standardized actions. Additionally, it has the ability to improve your security posture by providing insights into trends and implementation, helping to better understand performance, enhance collaboration, and identify areas for improvement.
Falcon Fusion SOAR delivers quick insights through a metrics dashboard that enables you to view detailed workflow executions, including the different actions performed by each workflow, and related detections. This comprehensive information, along with other trends, enhances understanding of the situation and context of the incident. All of this information is readily available in a unified view within the Falcon platform, reducing “swivel chair syndrome” for your team and allowing them to focus efforts on the most critical threats.
Figure 4. Understand and improve your security posture with SOAR insights at a single glance.
Next-level threat management with Falcon Next-Gen SIEM
With native SOAR capabilities powered by Falcon Fusion SOAR, Falcon Next-Gen SIEM accelerates threat detection, investigation and response – all from a single console. This gives your team the agility to keep pace with adversaries and focus on addressing the threats that put your organization at risk.
