{"id":89837,"date":"2019-09-09T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/\/?p=89837"},"modified":"2023-05-15T22:58:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T05:58:32","slug":"automated-incident-response-office-365-atp-now-generally-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/2019\/09\/09\/automated-incident-response-office-365-atp-now-generally-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Automated incident response in Office 365 ATP now generally available"},"content":{"rendered":"

Security teams responsible for investigating and responding to incidents often deal with a massive number of signals from widely disparate sources. As a result, rapid and efficient incident response continues to be the biggest challenge facing security teams today. The sheer volume of these signals, combined with an ever-growing digital estate of organizations, means that a lot of critical alerts miss getting the timely attention they deserve. Security teams need help to scale better, be more efficient, focus on the right issues, and deal with incidents in a timely manner.<\/p>\n

This is why I\u2019m excited to announce the general availability of Automated Incident Response in Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP). Applying these powerful automation capabilities to investigation and response workflows can dramatically improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your organization\u2019s security teams.<\/p>\n

A day in the life of a security analyst<\/h3>\n

To give you an idea of the complexity that security teams deal with in the absence of automation, consider the following typical workflow that these teams go through when investigating alerts:<\/p>\n

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And as they go through this flow for every single alert\u2014potentially hundreds in a week\u2014it can quickly become overwhelming. In addition, the analysis and investigation often require correlating signals across multiple different systems. This can make effective and timely response very difficult and costly. There are just too many alerts to investigate and signals to correlate for today\u2019s lean security teams.<\/p>\n

To address these challenges, earlier this year we announced the preview of powerful automation capabilities<\/a> to help improve the efficiency of security teams significantly. The security playbooks we introduced address some of the most common threats that security teams investigate in their day-to-day jobs and are modeled on their typical workflows.<\/p>\n

This story from Ithaca College<\/a> reflects some of the feedback we received from customers of the preview of these capabilities, including:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe incident detection and response capabilities we get with Office 365 ATP give us far more coverage than we\u2019ve had before. This is a really big deal for us.\u201d
\n\u2014Jason Youngers, Director and Information Security Officer, Ithaca College<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two categories of automation now generally available<\/h3>\n

Today, we\u2019re announcing the general availability of two categories of automation\u2014automatic and manually triggered investigations:<\/p>\n

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  1. Automatic investigations that are triggered when alerts are raised<\/strong>\u2014Alerts and related playbooks<\/a> for the following scenarios are now available:\n