IBM QRadar SOAR

Coordinated, Automated and Efficient Incident Response

By integrating Mimecast and IBM Security QRadar SOAR, organizations gain search and correlation capabilities to detect and respond to cyberattacks from a central location, without having to pivot between consoles. QRadar SOAR is designed to help the security team augment the analyst experience, allowing SOC teams to respond to cyberthreats confidently, automate intelligently and collaborate consistently. It guides the team in resolving incidents by codifying established incident response processes into dynamic playbooks.

Solution Overview

1. As inbound emails are received by Mimecast on behalf of the organization, they are subject to analysis by the Mimecast inspection funnel, where a series of email hygiene and advanced security scanning techniques are applied, to ensure that emails are safe before they are delivered to the recipient.

2. Email related data from Mimecast ingested into the IBM Security platform to help with analyst investigations.

3. Coordinate response actions across security tools based on Mimecast data.

4. Adjust Mimecast policies, search and destroy malicious emails, or prevent future threats.

Mimecast & IBM Resilient Use Cases:

• Automated Email Threat Enrichment

  Orchestrate and automate a variety of critical but repeatable Mimecast commands during an incident response to improve response times. 

• Complex Email Threat Investigation

  Analysts gain greater visibility and new actionable information about the attack through integrated Mimecast commands, with documentation per step and artifact reporting. 

• Alert Prioritization

   Increase efficiency and effectiveness by prioritizing the most pressing threats.

• Threat Intelligence

  Unifying aggregation, scoring, and sharing of threat intelligence with playbook-driven automation across the security estate.

Key Benefits

1. Automate email security processes, shorten decision-making, and drive resource efficiency through automation. 
2. Enrich intelligence from Mimecast and other security tools for a coordinated response. 
3. Achieve full orchestration capabilities using proactive playbooks and workflows.