Following my post on automation, a business question: what does it cost to do everything by hand?<\/p>\n
Let\u00b4s do a simple calculation. Say your SOC handles 50 incidents a day. Each one takes an analyst on average 30 minutes of repetitive work: looking things up, isolating, resetting, documenting. That is 25 hours a day, every day. With around the clock coverage and a realistic number of working hours per analyst, that is roughly five to six full time positions doing nothing but routine tasks.<\/p>\n
If automation takes away even half of that work, you free up two or three experienced people. At the cost of a security analyst in Sweden, that is a lot of money every year. More importantly, those people can spend their time hunting, improving detections and fixing the root causes.<\/p>\n
But the biggest cost isn\u00b4t salaries. It is time. An attacker who gets domain admin can encrypt a whole environment in a few hours. If your process from alert to action takes four hours because a human has to do every step, you lose. Automation that isolates a machine in two minutes changes the outcome.<\/p>\n
So for management: ask your security team how long it takes from an alert to the first action. Ask how much of that time is waiting for a human. Then ask what it would cost to automate the first steps.<\/p>\n
In security, minutes are money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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