Accelerating Incident Response with Automation

Security teams are facing an overwhelming volume of incidents. Manual processes can slow down response times, increasing damage and recovery costs. To counter this, organizations are adopting automation tools to:

• Capture ephemeral data in real time: Automated forensic tools ensure short-lived resources are preserved for investigation even if no human analysts are around to capture it.
• Speed up evidence collection: Reducing investigation time from hours to minutes.
• Enhance detection with real-time alerts: Automated workflows trigger immediate response actions.
• Reduce manual effort: Freeing up security professionals for more complex threats.

Automation doesn’t replace security professionals; it augments their capabilities by eliminating repetitive tasks and providing faster insights. Organizations must continuously refine their security posture, proactively integrating automation to improve response efficiency and minimize breach impact. Incident response is an ongoing process that requires continuous improvement. Organizations must not only react to threats but also proactively prepare, automate, and refine their security posture. By following structured IR phases and leveraging modern security tools, teams can minimize breach impact and strengthen resilience against future attacks.

How the Cado Platform Accelerates Incident Response with Automation

The Cado platform enhances incident response by providing:

Automated Data Capture

The Cado Platform offers comprehensive and automated data capture across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerized environments, serverless architectures, SaaS applications, hybrid infrastructures, and on-premises systems. It captures forensic evidence without requiring agents, preserving logs and other critical data automatically.

Parallel Data Processing

The Cado Platform leverages cloud-native parallel processing to normalize and analyze large volumes of data from hundreds of sources in minutes, accelerating threat investigation and containment.

Automated Investigations

The Cado Platform replicates initial human analyst tasks, such as determining root cause, scope, and impact. By surfacing key incident details, Cado enables teams to quickly understand and contain threats.

AI-Powered Forensics

Cado AI Investigator, utilizing a local Large Language Model (LLM), provides high-level incident summaries and automated file analysis, reducing manual workload and improving efficiency.

Automated Timeline Analysis

By correlating data from various sources, Cado compiles a unified timeline of events, helping analysts quickly grasp the sequence of malicious activities and accelerating root cause analysis.

The Cado timeline

Automated Triage

The Cado Platform enables automated triage acquisition of endpoint resources, gathering crucial artifacts like network states, logged-on users, and running processes. It also ingests triage data from other security tools to offer a more holistic view of incidents.

Data Enrichment

The platform automatically enriches forensic data using third-party and proprietary threat intelligence. Integration with YARA rules helps identify known malicious indicators, allowing security teams to prioritize critical threats.

Automation Rules

Organizations can configure custom automation rules to trigger response actions based on security alerts. For instance, Cado can automatically collect forensic data when AWS GuardDuty detects a threat, ensuring rapid containment.

Creating a rule in the Cado platform 

Integration with Security Tools

Cado seamlessly integrates with SIEMs, ticketing systems, XDR platforms, and SOAR solutions like Splunk SOAR and Tines. Automated workflows enable rapid forensic data collection and correlation across various security solutions.

Automated Response Actions

Cado facilitates automated remediation, allowing security teams to contain threats faster by isolating compromised cloud servers, blocking malicious traffic, and triggering other pre-defined response steps.

Incident Response Preparedness Automation

Cado includes an Incident Readiness Dashboard, which proactively evaluates an organization’s incident response preparedness by assessing logging configurations, permissions, and management agents, helping identify gaps before a security event occurs.

Enhancing Security Operations with Automation

By automating critical stages of the incident response lifecycle, the Cado platform significantly reduces Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) and enables security teams to react to threats with greater speed and precision. Automation also democratizes incident response, empowering security analysts of all skill levels to conduct comprehensive investigations without requiring deep cloud expertise.

As organizations continue to evolve their security strategies, integrating automation will be a key driver in minimizing breach impact, reducing manual workload, and improving overall cybersecurity resilience.