Episode 69 — Apply SOAR Thoughtfully: Automation Scope, Guardrails, and Human Override
This episode teaches how to apply SOAR in a way that increases speed and consistency without automating mistakes, which aligns with exam objectives around monitoring tools, process design, and risk-aware decision making. You will learn how to choose automation candidates such as enrichment, ticket creation, containment preparation, and routine response steps, then add guardrails that prevent automation from causing widespread outages or locking out legitimate users. We discuss the importance of human override for high-impact actions, rollback planning, and measuring automation success through time saved, improved investigation quality, and reduced mean time to contain. A scenario explores an automation playbook that wants to disable many accounts due to an alert spike, showing how to validate signals, enforce approvals, and avoid cascading business disruption. Troubleshooting considerations include automating noisy detections, failing to update playbooks as environments change, and lacking documentation for when analysts should intervene, emphasizing controlled automation that supports judgment. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.
