Service
SOAR Playbook Development
I design and build SOAR playbooks for phishing triage, IOC enrichment, malware alerts, suspicious-login workflows, EDR isolation approval, and incident escalation.
Who it's for
Who this is for
- SOC teams modernizing manual or copy-pasted playbooks.
- Teams standardizing response across multiple SOAR platforms.
- Security leaders reducing analyst toil on repetitive alerts.
Problems
Problems solved
- Playbook drift and copy-pasted branches nobody owns.
- Inconsistent enrichment across alert types.
- Consequential actions automated without approval gates.
- No structured audit per run.
Scope
What I review / build
- Design versioned, tested playbook blueprints.
- Build a shared enrichment and decision library.
- Add explicit approval gates on state-changing actions.
- Wire structured audit into every run.
- Port patterns across XSOAR, Tines, Sentinel, and QRadar.
Deliverables
Deliverables
- Playbook blueprints for your top alert classes.
- Shared enrichment/decision library.
- Approval-gate patterns for consequential actions.
- Per-run audit schema.
- Handover documentation.
Process
Sample workflow
01
Discovery
Inventory current playbooks, alert classes, and the toil to remove.
02
Blueprint design
Design reusable, versioned patterns with declared inputs and approvals.
03
Build & test
Implement on your SOAR platform and validate against real alert shapes.
04
Handover
Document the blueprints and the audit schema for your team to own.
Controls
Security controls included
Typical effort
2–4 weeksfocused effort
Scoped around availability. Async-friendly.
How to start
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Which SOAR platforms do you work with?
Cortex XSOAR, Tines, Splunk SOAR, IBM SOAR, Microsoft Sentinel, and QRadar. The patterns are designed to be portable across them.
Do playbooks auto-execute containment?
Only where it is safe. Consequential actions — isolation, blocking, notification — sit behind an explicit human-approval gate by design.
Will my team be able to maintain them?
Yes. Blueprints are versioned and documented, with a shared enrichment library so changes stay consistent.
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