Security operations are overwhelmed, but there’s hope

of organizations don’t have a proper incident response plan

of security pros say resolution time for security incidents has jumped in the past year

faster incident response can be achieved with orchestration
SOCs face major incident response roadblocks

Attacks and alerts are rising
Cyberattacks are increasing and growing increasingly complex and targeted, requiring more time and attention from security analysts.
At the same time, the volume of security alerts and false positives is growing. As a result, incident response (IR) teams are overworked and stretched too thin, leaving organizations at risk.

Security environments are complex
Security analysts need to be empowered to succeed. Too often, they have to rely on manual, outdated and ad hoc incident response processes, and manage dozens of disparate tools across multiple vendors.
As a result, security analysts struggle to work quickly and efficiently.

Analysts are bogged down by other tasks
When an incident occurs, analysts need to act fast and decisively. But too often, analyst time is consumed by reporting and metrics.
Similarly, navigating privacy notification requirements (and their tight deadlines) is complex and time-consuming.
Intelligent orchestration can free your business to thrive
Intelligent orchestration empowers security teams to battle cyberattacks with greater speed and agility. By seamlessly combining human and machine-based intelligence, intelligent orchestration extends the response through integrations with an ecosystem of security partners, guiding analysts through an expert-level response process.
With intelligent orchestration, you can deliver real-time visibility across your security operations center (SOC) tools, rapid time to value, and guided response. And you can help your team to:
- Outsmart cyber threats with the unique combination of human and artificial intelligence
- Outpace cyber threats through orchestration and automation across SOC tools
- Outmaneuver cyber attackers with agile and adaptive Dynamic Playbooks
Transform your SOC with intelligent orchestration

Orchestration and automation streamline repetitive and time-consuming tasks, freeing SOC staff to focus on more strategic priorities.
- Build robust, dynamic incident response plans that adapt in real time.
- Integrate your SIEM, incident response platform, ticketing system and other security solutions.
- Automate workflows to empower analysts and enable faster response

Human and artificial intelligence (AI) helps to better investigate threats, guide response processes and eliminate false positives.
- Capture and codify expertise and intelligence from your top security staff and experts across the organization.
- Use advanced threat intelligence and AI to uncover insights and trends.
- Collaborate with security experts to augment your team.

Case management helps to continuously measure, assess and refine IR processes and procedures.
- Establish a system of record for measuring and analyzing IR processes and performance.
- Assess, refine and customize IR plans.
- Understand your team’s workload and skillsets, and augment with security services.
View solutions to help you achieve intelligent orchestration
IBM helps you orchestrate incident response with
Automation and integration
IBM Resilient Incident Response Platform
Guided and enriched response with IBM® Resilient’s integrations and automated workflows
Resilient Dynamic Playbooks
Adaptive and agile response to today’s complex threats
Intelligence and insights
IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform
Detect and defend against network security threats with visibility across log events and network flow data from thousands of devices, endpoints and applications.
IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson
AI to accelerate your analysis of advanced persistent threats and advanced attacks by 60 times.
IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics
Broaden visibility into behavior anomalies for faster response and remediation to insider and advanced persistent threats.
Expertise and collaboration
IBM X-Force Incident Response Intelligence Services (IRIS)
Let our trained security experts help analyze and respond to advanced persistent threats and advanced attacks
IBM Managed Detection and Response
IBM Security experts help you detect, respond and understand advanced persistent threats from root-cause through the kill chain
IBM Managed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Around-the-clock security monitoring and reporting using IBM X-Force® research capabilities and data intelligence
Incident response orchestration resources
Dive a little deeper into the challenges security teams today face, and steps to sharpen and accelerate security operations.