XMCyber Integration for Google SecOps SOAR

Risk-Driven Security: Transforming Attack Path Intelligence into Actionable Defense with XM Cyber and Google SecOps SOAR

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Executive Summary

Crest Data has developed a comprehensive integration between XM Cyber's Continuous Exposure Management (CEM) platform and Google SecOps SOAR,

enabling organizations to leverage attack path data and exposure insights within their security operations workflows. This integration enhances threat detection capabilities, provides deeper context for security incidents, and enables more effective remediation through automated workflows. The integration delivers advanced entity enrichment, risk scoring, and breach point management capabilities that significantly improve security operations efficiency.

The XM Cyber Continuous Exposure Management (CEM) platform offers a proactive approach to cybersecurity by simulating potential attack paths from an attacker's perspective. This enables organizations to identify and remediate vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. The platform automatically discovers attack paths to critical assets, allowing security teams to prioritize fixes that have the most significant impact on reducing risk. By focusing on the most critical exposures, organizations can effectively close security gaps and enhance their overall security posture. By visualizing how vulnerabilities and misconfigurations can be exploited, the platform helps in making informed decisions to mitigate potential threats.

Business Challenge

• Limited context: Security analysts lacked comprehensive visibility into asset relationships and attack paths during investigations

• Manual workflows: Remediation actions required manual intervention across multiple platforms

• Prioritization difficulties: Without proper context, teams struggled to prioritize which vulnerabilities and exposures posed the greatest risk

• Platform dependencies: Organizations using non-Google SIEM solutions faced integration challenges when trying to leverage XM Cyber data in Google SecOps SOAR.

Organizations needed a way to integrate XM Cyber's attack path data and asset information directly into Google SecOps SOAR to enhance threat detection, investigation, and response capabilities, regardless of their underlying SIEM platform.

Customer Solution

The XM Cyber integration for Google SecOps SOAR provides a seamless connection between the two platforms, enabling security teams to leverage attack path data and exposure insights within their security operations workflows. 

Key Features and Capabilities

• Data Enrichment: Retrieves detailed information from XM Cyber for each identified entity, including critical scores, risk factors, and attributes.

• Risk Calculation: Applies weighted scoring algorithms to determine overall risk levels as per the XM Cyber context, supporting customizable weightage for nine different risk factors.

• Breach Point Management: Identifies entities involved in alerts and marks them as potential breach points in XM Cyber, supporting sophisticated filtering based on 20+ parameters.

• Automated Playbooks: Provides ready-to-use playbooks that automatically extract entity data from alerts and intelligently filter alerts based on XM Cyber's risk scoring algorithm.

• Visualization Widgets: Creates intuitive visualization dashboards with six specialized widgets that transform complex XM Cyber data into actionable security insights.

• Universal SIEM Compatibility: Works seamlessly with both Google SecOps SIEM and third-party SIEM platforms, providing consistent enrichment capabilities regardless of the underlying SIEM technology.

Note: The above solution could be easily migrated to the Content pack once it is GA.

The Crest Difference

• Strategic Solution Design, Not Just Integration: We don't just connect APIs; we architect intelligent security workflows. Our proactive design of specialized visualization widgets, cross-platform enrichment capabilities, and comprehensive SOAR playbooks for the XM Cyber integration demonstrates our commitment to delivering true operational value beyond basic connectivity.

• Deep Google SecOps & Security Operations Expertise: Our profound understanding of how security teams actually use these platforms ensures that the integrations we build are not just technically sound but intuitively useful and highly effective in real-world scenarios.