Goodbye, SOAR/SecOps? Hello, CIAO!

Rapidly advancing AI technology threatens to overwhelm government cybersecurity organizations by dramatically increasing the volume and sophistication of attacks. Existing security orchestration automation response (SOAR) and security operations (SecOps) technologies were supposed to help cybersecurity teams detect threats and automate responses. However, they struggle to keep up with the constant escalation of threats because they lack a key ingredient: the ability to collect and analyze threat intelligence to help understand the constantly evolving motives and tactics of attackers.

The good news is that AI technology can also be deployed effectively against this rising tide of threats. Cyber intelligence automation orchestration (CIAO) represents a revolutionary advance in cybersecurity, and promises to help organizations evolve to a more robust and proactive security posture.

CIAO utilizes AI agents to continuously ingest and analyze data from both external and internal sources to understand threats and provide effective defense. It not only monitors for threats, it can also help proactively remediate vulnerabilities before attacks can occur and help speed up and improve responses when they do.

While CIAO leverages the power of AI, it is not just a set of technologies. It is an organizational transformation that includes new processes and an operating model designed to enhance the capabilities of cyber professionals across the organization. CIAO presents a scalable approach to cybersecurity that can help agencies with their current threats and whatever may come in the future.