Security Playbook Development

Playbook Purpose

Security playbooks provide standardized, repeatable procedures for responding to security incidents. Playbooks ensure consistent response quality, reduce response time, enable junior analyst effectiveness, and support automation.

Playbook Components

Playbooks include trigger conditions defining when to use, severity classification, initial response actions, investigation steps, containment procedures, eradication guidance, recovery steps, and communication requirements.

Development Process

Create playbooks through threat scenario identification, gathering input from IR teams, documenting current best practices, incorporating lessons learned, adding decision trees for complexity, and validating through testing and exercises.

Automation Integration

Automate playbook steps where possible using SOAR platforms. Automated actions include enrichment, containment, evidence collection, and notification while maintaining human oversight for critical decisions.

Maintenance

Keep playbooks current through regular reviews, updates based on new threats and techniques, incorporation of lessons learned, validation with changing infrastructure, and version control tracking changes over time.

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