Hi SOC analysts and other infosec professionals,
Which standard/custom method do you use to decide about the alert severity in your SOC?
Is it possible to avoid being too subjective? How do you fight the "alert fatigue"?
Hi @Evgeny Belenky,
I think as long as you do this thing manually, you will always have to be subjective. One will always say alerts from critical assets first, setting them with higher priority.
But the concept of threat intelligence will help. Threat intelligence feeds will help in improving information about the threats you are handling. Without this, your assets and rules you set will always say "hey, this is a serious malicious activity" with brief information unlike when you get feeds from various sources of threat intelligence.
Fighting alert fatigue - It's good to have playbooks do some repetitive work. If an alert is generated, instead of jumping into all of them as analyst, playbook will help you automate some activities like checking file hashes in virus total. At least in the end one will be getting alerts that matters most and with sufficient information added by playbooks.
Regional Manager/ Service Delivery Manager at ASPL INFO Services
Jan 20, 2022
Hi @Evgeny Belenky,
Below are a few strategies if taken into account can reduce cybersecurity alert fatigue in SOC.
1. Threat intelligence
2. Native integration
3. Machine learning
4. Watchlists
5. UEBA (User and Entity Behavior Analytics)
6. Automation
Hello security professionals,
What is the main difference between these two terms in incident response: mitigation and remediation.
Please share some examples, if applicable.
Thanks,
IT Security Coordinator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 11, 2022
Mitigation is taking your car in for an oil change and tune up.
Remediation is them finding you have a blown gasket seal and replacing the parts and greasing the engine to make your engine doesn't blow. AKA security vulnerability management.
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