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 and design resilient playbooks. You’ll also integrate the tools your SOC already uses: SIEM, EDR, cloud and identity platforms, sandboxes, threat intel, and ITSM.
Day one starts by mapping SOC workflows to a SOAR capability model so you can pick automation targets that pay off. It then moves into event ingestion and normalization: connectors, APIs and webhooks, polling versus streaming, and correlating alerts into a common case schema. Enrichment orchestration adds threat intel lookups, sandboxing, and asset and identity context to each case. The day closes with playbook design patterns covering triggers, branching, approvals, SLAs, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
Day two puts automated response into practice: host isolation, account disable and reset, and network and email controls. It also covers cloud guardrails, each paired with a rollback plan. You’ll harden those automations for reliability and safety with idempotency, retries and backoff, circuit breakers, and rate limiting. You’ll also add secrets management, RBAC, audit trails, and kill switches. Then you’ll validate them with unit tests, dry-runs, and attack simulations while tracking KPIs like MTTD and MTTR. The course closes with productionizing playbooks through CI/CD, versioning and change control, and compliance-aligned documentation and post-incident reviews.
The class emphasizes reliability and safety, operational excellence, and governance throughout. By the end, you’ll have the patterns and artifacts to automate triage and accelerate response without sacrificing control.
Who Should Attend
SOC/SIEM Analysts/Engineers, Incident Responders, Detection Engineers, Architect/SRE/Platform Security
What Attendees Will Learn
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
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.