The top five pitfalls to avoid when implementing SOAR

An opinion piece advising security leaders that SOAR should be treated as an engineering effort (‘Security Operations and Response Engineering’) rather than a set-and-forget automation tools. The author describes five frequent mistakes—automating everything, relying on anecdote instead of metrics, building brittle integrations, assuming progress without broad risk context, and becoming complacent—and recommends measuring current capabilities, using abstraction layers for integrations, prioritizing automation with data, and exercising response plans (e.g., tabletop exercises or gamified scenarios) to keep automation accurate and resilient.