Playbooks
Playbooks play an important role in orchestrating and automating security responses. Orchestrate supports both manual and fully automated playbooks, enabling you to tailor workflows to your organization’s specific processes and procedures. A playbook is a well-defined sequence of actions designed to respond to incidents and threats. Security teams can use playbooks to automate repetitive tasks and manage common activities such as analyzing vulnerabilities, investigating IOCs (Indicators of Compromise), reviewing suspicious logs, and more.
Note
You can create simple playbooks. For example, a playbook to automatically send emails to customers when specific events occur.
To access playbooks, in the left panel, select Main Menu, and go to Playbooks > Manage Playbooks.
Features
Playbooks offer an extensive set of features such as:
Powerful visual editor: Design logical workflows using an intuitive drag-and-drop canvas. The visual editor enables you to easily build and customize orchestration flows tailored to your specific needs.
Schedule Playbooks: Schedule playbooks to run on-demand or automatically when triggered by one or more events.
Clone Playbooks: Clone any existing or pre-built playbooks to create a copy. You can then modify the cloned version without affecting the original, enabling quick customization and iteration.
Run Logs for Playbooks: Access detailed run logs for entire playbooks and individual nodes. These logs help with debugging and provide insight into each step of execution.
Filters: Apply filters to quickly locate specific playbooks based on criteria such as status, trigger type, or tags.
Sub-Playbooks: Sub-Playbooks help you promote reusability across multiple workflows. While building a playbook, you can add another playbook as a node within the main workflow, these are known as Sub-Playbooks. Sub-playbooks can be executed either synchronously with the parent playbook or asynchronously as an independent playbook.
Benefits
Playbooks assist security analysts and teams in achieving the required security orchestration and automation demands of your organization. A few of the primary benefits of using playbooks are:
Offers an integrated security environment: Playbooks can help in connecting different security tools together to create an effective and integrated security environment.
Perform automation: The data gathered from different application databases can be processed to perform automated actions such as creating an incident, updating details of an incident, and assigning users to respond to an incident.
Standardize processes: Playbooks fill in for security analysts and relieve them of monotonous tasks, which can be incorporated into playbooks that outline the step-by-step incident response.
Integrate with other applications: Playbooks can be integrated into products across various security technologies such as cloud security, forensics, malware analysis, vulnerability and risk management, data enrichment, threat intelligence, incident response, endpoint security, and more. For example, the potential events from a threat response platform, such as Respond can also be used to automatically trigger Orchestrate playbooks by mapping those events to Playbooks using labels.