SecOps SOAR: A Key Component of Modern Cybersecurity

Companies continue to suffer from an increasing number and complexity of cyber threats, leading to significant data breaches and large-scale cyber incidents. These events underscore the ongoing vulnerabilities in organizations and highlight the critical need for advanced security measures and effective incident response mechanisms. For example, one of the many significant data breaches and cyber incidents that occurred in March will serve as a basis for discussing the importance of Security Operations, Automation, and Response (SOAR) solutions in mitigating these risks.

March 2025:

• Western Alliance Bank: Notified nearly 22,000 customers that their personal information was stolen in October following a breach of a third-party vendor’s secure file transfer software. This again highlights the risk that arises when working with third-party agents without ensuring reliable communication, and the potential for supply chain attacks. Vulnerabilities in third-party vendor systems are becoming an increasingly common attack vector, emphasizing the importance of thorough assessment and management of supply chain risks.

In today’s digital world, where the number of cyber threats is constantly growing, organizations need effective protection strategies. One of the key approaches is Security Operations (SecOps), which involves close collaboration between security and IT teams. SecOps unites people, processes, and tools to protect the organization. Among the important tools are SIEM systems for collecting and analyzing security data. Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) systems are used to automate responses to detected threats.

SOAR is a set of tools and services for automating cyberattack prevention and response. The system consists of three main components: orchestration, automation, and response. SOAR helps security teams effectively manage cyber threats.

Google actively invests in its SecOps solutions suite, as evidenced by the acquisitions of Mandiant and Siemplify. Mandiant has enhanced Google’s capabilities in cyber threat intelligence and incident response, while Siemplify provided proven SOAR capabilities that have been integrated with Chronicle security analytics (now Google SecOps). These steps demonstrate Google’s commitment to providing a comprehensive SecOps platform.

Google SecOps is tightly integrated with other Google products, such as Gmail and Google Alert Center, which helps in detecting phishing attacks and other security issues. Artificial intelligence (Gemini/SecLM) is used to analyze emails and detect suspicious content, and to study the organization’s risk profile. Gemini, powered by SecLM, helps generate search queries, create rules and playbooks that automate workflows.

Google SecOps offers a range of capabilities, including Threat Intelligence, which aggregates threat data from global sources. The Applied Threat Intelligence functionality analyzes security telemetry based on indicators of compromise.

UEBA (risk analysis) detects unusual user and device behavior, and UDM (Unified Data Model) simplifies data analysis and threat detection. The platform has integration capabilities, including forwarders and parsers. Google SecOps also has built-in VirusTotal for threat analysis. Looker Studio is used for data visualization.

TeraSky has significant experience in implementing SecOps projects and offers a demonstration of Google SecOps SOAR. TeraSky provides full support in implementing SecOps solutions, using its expertise in cloud solutions and security. TeraSky is a Google Premium Partner and offers a comprehensive approach to project implementation, which includes testing, conducting pilot projects, joint implementation, and provides a platform for a demo environment. Also, in the TeraSky portfolio, you can consider other products from Google.