We’ve assembled a dream team that is ready to go to work for our customers. The team includes:

• A world-class incident responder, who is an expert in NIST guidelines and possesses the entire wisdom of the MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND frameworks.
• A legal and compliance expert, who has memorized every major regulatory framework relevant to our customers’ industries.
• A privacy specialist, who understands the requirements and best practices for handling sensitive data.
• A digital forensics expert, who has experience with thousands of detailed investigations.
• A cybersecurity genius, who has studied the functionality and APIs of every tool our customers use.
• Of course, the team also features a Smart SOAR expert, who knows every capability of the platform.

You might be thinking, how much is this dream team going to cost me? They sound expensive! In fact, you won’t have to worry about the cost at all, because this dream team isn’t actually a team of highly paid experts—it’s the capabilities of Ace AI, our new intelligent automation assistant for Smart SOAR.

All of these areas of expertise go into the generation of Ace AI’s Smart SOAR playbooks. All you have to do is input your tools, requirements, and necessary outcomes, and Ace AI does the rest.

AI-generated playbooks have arrived, and they are a game changer.

Meet the AI Dream Team

If you are skeptical about AI-generated playbooks, it’s probably because you are picturing something like ChatGPT confidently hallucinating its way through telling you how to respond to an incident. Of course, your security processes are far too important to be entrusted to that kind of AI.

Ace AI isn’t that. It has been trained by D3’s expert team to give it superhuman capabilities in all of the areas of expertise we previously mentioned. The model also runs specific playbook test cases to confirm that the playbook is fully operational before it is deployed to the production environment.

There is a lot of knowledge that goes into a full-lifecycle automated playbook. No matter how good your team is, they are unlikely to have all the information they need without bringing other subject matter experts into the process.

Laws and regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, 23 NYCRR 500, and many others determine the necessary processes around important elements like data handling, breach notifications, and deadlines for resolution. The applicable laws and regulations differ across industries and regions, making a complex patchwork for compliance that is beyond the scope of most security teams. Instead of needing to consult with legal and compliance teams, Ace AI builds compliant workflows, based on your precise requirements.

As much as we have made Smart SOAR as easy as possible to use, with things like vendor-managed integrations, codeless playbooks, and automated data normalization, it’s still a powerful tool with deep sets of features and capabilities, and that comes with a learning curve—just like all SOAR tools. Ace AI can’t take away that learning curve entirely, but it can build playbooks that leverage comprehensive knowledge of the tool. That includes Smart SOAR’s hundreds of utility commands—what we call Hyperactions—and how they can be used to make more powerful workflows.

AI Playbooks that Don’t Fall Short

Security teams spend a lot of time building playbooks, especially when starting out with a new tool, so it has long been a goal to automate the development process. However, past attempts (and many of the current offerings) have failed to achieve the level of sophistication and specificity needed to be deployed without additional customization.

Automatically generated playbooks usually end up as generic, simple, automated sequences. Either the playbook engine can’t support the necessary scale and complexity for end-to-end playbooks, or they don’t take into account the specialized information that makes a procedure compliant, legal, and effective.

If a playbook requires significant reworking by the user, then it isn’t truly an automated solution.

Ace AI’s playbooks are completely different because of the sophistication of the model and the range of inputs that it considers. Thanks to the research done at D3 Labs, Ace AI knows exactly how all the tools in your environment interact, and what exact API commands are needed to collect the necessary data and trigger the right sequence of actions.

Ace AI playbooks also take advantage of Smart SOAR’s multiple tiers of automation, with playbooks for events and incidents. Ace AI even creates case management playbooks for deep investigations.

Read our recent blog to learn more about why most automated playbook development fails and what Ace AI does differently.

The Future of Security Automation

Now that the era of AI-generated playbooks has arrived, the question is, what does that mean for the near future of security automation? Let’s consider a few immediate effects. Implementation times should be much faster. Vendors and new customers are currently taking weeks, or even months, to gather all the necessary information and build out a few playbooks. With AI, that major part of SOAR implementation can be done in a few hours.

Speaking of implementations, when implementing or evaluating a new tool, such as during a proof of concept period, customers now don’t have to be limited to one or two playbooks. When playbooks can be spun up by AI, customers can properly test out the platform by adding all of their important workflows.

What about for mature security teams that already have lots of playbooks in place? D3 is offering new customers the opportunity to bring their existing workflows so that Ace AI can analyze and improve them.

These are just a few of the short-term impacts of Ace AI. The possibilities are truly beyond the scope of imagination. There’s never been a better time to get a demo of Smart SOAR and see it for yourself.

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*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from D3 Security authored by Walker Banerd. Read the original post at: https://d3security.com/blog/ace-ai-automated-compliant-playbooks/