How is UiPath Automating Cybersecurity Operations>
UI Path Blog – Jagjit Dhaliwal
Foundry’s State of the CIO Study 2022 reports that âthroughout the upcoming year, CIOs will focus their time and expertise on security management. 76% anticipate their involvement in cybersecurity to increase over the next year, and 51% say they are currently focused on security management in their role.â The increase in remote work capabilities and penetration of digital solutions during the pandemic have heaped more cybersecurity issues onto the plates of security teams.
Alert fatigue continues to be a problem One survey found that âmore than one-third of IT security managers and security analysts ignore threat alerts when the queue is full.â
Through IT automation activities, UiPath provides easy-to-use, vendor-agnostic, robust security operations capabilities. This article will explain these capabilities and how theyâre enabling full-scale security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR).
Identity lifecycle Within most companies, IT analysts manage user profiles, roles, and employee access controls. Some of their activities may include user provisioning, adding/removing application access, resetting user passwords, and unlocking user accounts.
Threat detection and prevention Another key focus for security professionals is detection and prevention activities. Per a recent IBM study, âorganizations with a âfully deployedâ security automation strategy had an average breach cost of $2.90 million â whereas those with no automation experienced more than double that cost at $6.71 million.â
UiPath extends the security automation capabilities of existing security operation tools. Using event-driven automation capabilities, a UiPath Robot can be triggered from the endpoint detection and response (EDR), extended detection and response (XDR), security information and event management (SIEM), or other security monitoring tools to perform remediation actions.
What about email phishing? Our robots can automatically quarantine email threads and trigger remediation actions. Incident response Here are some activities that your security team can automate as part of incident response: Delete or quarantine suspicious malware-infected files Perform a geolocation lookup on a given IP address Search for files on a particular endpoint Block a URL on perimeter devices Quarantine a device from the network Retrieve information about any compromised users Audit and compliance You can automate many of these activities, especially related to IT general control, by: Pulling a list of all AD users by groups, role memberships, and resource ownerships Validating separation of duties across application development and deployment processes Security activation packs and product partnerships Apart from native UiPath UI and API integration capabilities, we have various pre-built activities packs and workflow packages available to jumpstart your security operations automation. These drag-and-drop, out-of-the-box packages are easy to understand and use.
Link: https://www.uipath.com/blog/automation/automating-cybersecurity-operations