Breaking Down Silos – Unified Security for Faster Automated Threat Resolution with Fortinet

Security teams often struggle with disparate security tools and disjointed workflows, leading to delayed threat responses. Fortinet’s presentation at Cloud Field Day showcased how its FortiSOAR platform addresses this challenge by orchestrating threat intelligence from FortiNDR (Network Detection and Response) and FortiCNAPP (Cloud Native Application Protection Platform). This integration seamlessly connects network and cloud threat data, enabling automated responses to reduce SOC workload and accelerate threat mitigation.

The demonstration highlighted how FortiSOAR ingests alerts from various sources, including FortiNDR and FortiCNAPP, correlating them to build a comprehensive picture of an attack. For example, FortiNDR provides network-level details like malicious IP addresses and file downloads, while FortiCNAPP offers insights into cloud-based activity, such as suspicious container behavior. FortiSOAR then uses these combined insights to trigger automated remediation playbooks, such as blocking malicious IP addresses, deleting compromised deployments, and redeploying clean instances.

Furthermore, FortiSOAR leverages AI capabilities, currently utilizing OpenAI’s GPT technology but with the potential for other integrations, to enhance threat analysis and incident response. This AI assistance allows SOC analysts to gain better context from alerts, receive severity assessments, discover similar incidents, and even automate some of the investigative and response processes. This ultimately improves the efficiency and effectiveness of security operations, enabling faster and more accurate threat resolution.