In this interactive workshop, you'll learn how to automate security tasks and create orchestrated workflows for efficient incident response. By leveraging automation, security teams can reduce response times, eliminate repetitive tasks, and ensure consistent handling of security events.
This workshop is designed to provide hands-on experience with security automation tools and techniques. You'll start with basic concepts and progressively build more advanced automation scenarios.
Security automation enables teams to programmatically execute security operations tasks with minimal human intervention. This module introduces key concepts and benefits of security automation, including:
Learn to create automation scripts that handle common security tasks. You'll work with Python to develop scripts for:
# Example of a basic security automation script import requests import json import logging # Setup logging logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format='%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s') # API configuration API_KEY = "your_api_key_here" ENDPOINT = "https://api.threatintel.example.com/v1/lookup" def enrich_ioc(indicator, indicator_type): """Enriches indicators of compromise with threat intelligence data""" headers = { "Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}", "Content-Type": "application/json" } payload = { "indicator": indicator, "type": indicator_type } try: response = requests.post(ENDPOINT, headers=headers, data=json.dumps(payload)) response.raise_for_status() return response.json() except Exception as e: logging.error(f"Error enriching IOC {indicator}: {str(e)}") return None def process_alerts(alerts_file): """Process alerts from SIEM export and enrich with threat intelligence""" with open(alerts_file, 'r') as f: alerts = json.load(f) enriched_alerts = [] for alert in alerts: ip_addresses = alert.get("source_ips", []) + alert.get("destination_ips", []) for ip in ip_addresses: enrichment = enrich_ioc(ip, "ip") if enrichment: alert["enrichment"] = alert.get("enrichment", {}) alert["enrichment"][ip] = enrichment enriched_alerts.append(alert) with open('enriched_alerts.json', 'w') as f: json.dump(enriched_alerts, f, indent=4) logging.info(f"Processed {len(alerts)} alerts, saved to enriched_alerts.json") if __name__ == "__main__": process_alerts("alerts.json")
Explore Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms to build comprehensive playbooks for security operations. You'll learn:
Dive into real-world automation scenarios and implement advanced security automation solutions:
Introduction to security automation concepts, benefits, and use cases. Learn about the automation lifecycle and how to identify opportunities for automation in security operations.
Learn to use Python for security automation tasks. Build scripts for log analysis, threat intelligence enrichment, and basic incident response workflows.
Explore Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms. Design and implement playbooks for common security scenarios and integrate with security tools.
Automate network security tasks such as firewall rule management, network device configuration, and network traffic analysis using scripts and orchestration tools.
Implement automation for cloud security posture management, infrastructure as code security, and automated remediation of cloud security issues.
Build automated threat hunting workflows that continuously search for indicators of compromise, suspicious behaviors, and potential security incidents.
This certificate is awarded to
For successfully completing the Security Automation Workshop and demonstrating proficiency in security automation concepts, tools, and implementation.
Aziz Alghamdi
Instructor
May 1, 2025
Date
Certificate ID: SA-WS-2025-0001