What is SOAR?

SOAR stands for Security Orchestration, Automation and Response. It connects your security tools together (orchestration), automates repetitive response tasks through playbooks (automation), and manages incidents end to end (response). In practice, when an alert arrives, a SOAR can automatically gather context, decide based on rules, take action like blocking or isolating, and log everything — all in seconds, freeing analysts for the work that needs human judgement.