SOLUTION BRIEF

Improve Security Operations

with Fortinet’s AI-Driven SOC
Automation Platform

Executive Summary On average, organizations with

security automation save more
Digital transformation offers organizations many benefits but presents challenges
than $3M per data breach
for security teams everywhere. And many of the technologies and innovations
compared to those without.1
enterprises are using to drive this transformation are also being harnessed by threat
actors. In response, security teams are turning to point products to “patch” security
gaps, but they’re inadvertently creating vulnerabilities that are easily exploited.

The Fortinet SOC (security operations center) Maturity Model is designed to help security teams identify their current
maturity level based on their existing investment in people, processes, and products. From there, an organization can identify
the tools it needs and define what’s required to advance to the next level.

Fortinet solutions, such as FortiAnalyzer (Security Fabric analytics and automation), FortiSIEM (security information and event
management), and FortiSOAR (security orchestration, automation, and response), provide support for organizations for every
phase of the SOC Maturity Model. Each solution uses automation to address key challenges, and the Fortinet Security Fabric
links all of these solutions together, enabling lean security teams to protect their enterprise effectively.

Simplify Your Security Operations to Maximize Efficiency

Fortinet provides the tools for as much automation as your organization is ready to leverage. Fortinet’s SOC Automation Platform
delivers pre-integrated technologies that work together to reduce noise from unneeded alerts, apply advanced security analytics,
harness threat intelligence, automate contextual enrichment, and orchestrate mitigation and response actions.

As a result, your SOC gets a comprehensive view of the attack surface through a single pane of glass, which helps to simplify
operations and shorten the time required to detect and remediate an incident.

What Is the Fortinet SOC Automation Platform?

The Fortinet SOC Automation Platform consists of multiple security technologies, all of which are designed to work
seamlessly together through the Fortinet Security Fabric:

FortiAnalyzer is ideal for teams who are just beginning to embrace automation. FortiAnalyzer aggregates and correlates
alerts across the Fortinet Security Fabric and provides easy predefined automation based on alert triggers across all Fortinet
products.

FortiSIEM extends visibility across multi-vendor and multi-cloud environments. Moving beyond known tactics and
techniques, FortiSIEM employs machine learning (ML) to baseline the normal behaviors of users, endpoints, and network
flows so that anomalous behavior is automatically flagged for review. Native playbook integration with FortiSOAR helps
security analysts leverage the power of security automation and orchestration without context switching out of the FortiSIEM
investigation and response workflows.

FortiSOAR adds full security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) of human workflows and collaboration across
all functions and environments that synchronize people, processes, and technologies. FortiSOAR is ideal for organizations
with a dedicated SOC and defined, advanced processes that require an intuitive low-code playbook builder for creating
customized and out-of-the-box automation. Providing more than 450 out-of-the-box connectors to ingest data, the solution
frameworks found in the FortiSOAR content hubs and best practice services can easily jump-start or enhance operations.

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Everything You Need to Jump-Start or Enhance Your SOC

FortiAnalyzer
n Easily implement threat monitoring. Detect threats in earlier stages of the cyber kill chain with FortiAnalyzer, and expand
your Internet-of-Things (IoT) and zero-trust network access (ZTNA) visibility. Identify anomalies, threats, compromised
systems, and vulnerabilities with dashboards, widgets, and comprehensive reports, with aggregated threat intelligence from
FortiGuard Labs.
n Harness ready-to-use automation. Improve operational effectiveness with built-in event handlers, ready-to-use incident
response playbooks, Security Fabric connectors, and IT service management integration. As your business grows and you
need advanced automation, try the FortiSOAR Management Extension Application on FortiAnalyzer to experience, build, or
test playbooks on a full-blown SOAR solution.
n Augment your operations. If you are building, bridging, expanding, or looking to operationalize your SOC fully, you can
offload monitoring, threat detection, alert triage, and investigations with FortiGuard SOC-as-a-Service for better visibility and
automation. SOC-as-a-Service offers 24x7x365 threat monitoring, alert triage, and investigation, as well as recommendations
for your team on what actions to take if an incident occurs.

FortiSIEM
n Get centralized management and visibility of all your security tech. FortiSIEM extends visibility beyond the Security
Fabric to include the entire ecosystem of devices, servers, endpoints, applications, and public cloud platforms. FortSIEM
Manager enables centralized management and visibility across multiple distributed FortiSIEM instances while maintaining
data sovereignty.
n All of the power and control of in-house SIEM without the administrative overhead. FortiSIEM Cloud delivers a dedicated
FortiSIEM cluster hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and administered by Fortinet experts, using the latest in site
reliability engineering principles and automation. Unlike many other SaaS options in the SIEM market, FortiSIEM Cloud includes
all the same functionality as the on-premises version.
n Get AI-driven insights. FortiSIEM User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) functionality employs logs and network flows for
baselining normal behavior and supports a unique, lightweight agent to pull telemetry from endpoints, which give AI-driven
insights well beyond what is available through a log-based approach.

FortiSOAR
n Leverage threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs. FortiSOAR provides a threat intelligence management framework
built to ingest, analyze, and maximize threat feeds as a force multiplier for security investigations. The FortiGuard Labs
integration provides feeds and lookup and countless integrations with multiple open-source and paid feed products.
n Get started quickly with ready-made or custom solutions. FortiSOAR includes a comprehensive in-product and public
repository of plug-and-play solution packs, guides, and more through the FortiSOAR Content Hub. As a result, users get a
quick-start framework to work from and can easily and quickly address evolving requirements.
n Adjust orchestration and automation as needed. FortiSOAR provides low-code playbook building for advanced
automation, and, unlike most SOAR products, users of FortiSOAR can create automation for all kinds of workflow processes
beyond the SOC. This enables enterprises to scale their optimization over the long term and across departments.

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Summary
Fortinet solutions, such as FortiAnalyzer, FortiSIEM, and FortiSOAR, leverage Eighty-four percent of companies
security automation to address the key challenges faced by security teams, report that security alerts are
ultimately helping to enhance their operations and find efficiencies. The Fortinet increasingly overwhelming as
Security Fabric links all these solutions together, enabling overwhelmed security more security tools are added to
analysts to manage security operations through a single pane of glass and their portfolio.2
maximize their ability to protect the enterprise.

1
IBM, “Cost of a Data Breach 2022,” July 2022.
2
Cybersecurity Insiders, “2022 State of Security Posture Report,” accessed November 2, 2022.

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