{"id":99320,"date":"2019-06-03T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=99320"},"modified":"2019-06-03T11:23:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T18:23:45","slug":"automate-orchestrate-transform-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/automate-orchestrate-transform-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Automate and Orchestrate to Transform Cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"

NTT will be presenting at Ignite \u201919 USA<\/a> on Wednesday, June 5 at 1:00 PM. Join Guido Crucq, Group SVP \u2013 Cybersecurity and Greg Garten, SVP Research & Development, NTT Communications\/NTT Security\/Dimension Data, for our session<\/em> Securing Smart Enterprises \u2013 The Cybersecurity Corporate Survival Handbook<\/strong> to learn more about the new corporate security challenges and solutions.<\/em><\/p>\n

Automation and orchestration are transforming how cybersecurity teams operate on a day-to-day basis, as well as supporting business innovation.<\/p>\n

Digitalization allows increased agility in organizations, and thanks to this, cybersecurity plays a significant role in an organization\u2019s success. Given the potential financial and reputational impact of a breach (56% of businesses say their customers would lose confidence in them following a security breach, according to NTT Security\u2019s Risk:Value research), organizations must prioritize cybersecurity.<\/p>\n

While this is good news for cybersecurity practitioners, it increases the high demands already on them. An expanding digital footprint, alongside a growing list of regulatory requirements and growing volumes and sophistication of attacks, mean it is harder to keep a business secure. A company\u2019s digital presence has become its largest attack vector.<\/p>\n

While not new in the technology industry, orchestration and automation in security have tremendous potential to lighten the load for cybersecurity teams, helping to focus efforts on higher-value activities.<\/p>\n

Security automation creates an effective, integrated technology ecosystem by automating a task that would otherwise require human intervention or the use of multiple security tools. Examples include automatically provisioning\/de-provisioning users, investigation and evidence collection, and event correlation and the respective decision-making processes.<\/p>\n

Security orchestration is the automation of processes and workflows across multiple cybersecurity systems; previously-fragmented sets of technologies and products are integrated, enabling better cyber intelligence sharing and improved threat detection and response.<\/p>\n

Together, these take time-consuming tasks away from practitioners, making security and operational teams more productive, cost-effective and consistent, allowing them to reduce wasted efforts and redirect their focus towards developing a culture of SecDevOps and knowledge transfer to drive innovation.<\/p>\n

There are four key areas for applying cybersecurity automation and orchestration:<\/p>\n