4 Top Security Automation Use Cases: A Detailed Guide

This sponsored article promotes automation-centric security operations in light of Gartner’s shift away from SOAR, detailing four practical workflows: enriching IoCs via multiple intelligence APIs, monitoring external attack surfaces with tools like Shodan, scanning web apps using OWASP ZAP and Burp Suite, and checking for exposed credentials through HIBP. It outlines how to automate data collection, aggregation, prioritization, and delivery of results into existing communication and ticketing systems, and includes a brief FAQ contrasting scripts versus centralized automation platforms such as Blink Ops.