A Security Team’s Most Critical Skill? No-Code Automation

Security teams today are facing a major hurdle to their success: too much work and not enough people. I saw it time and again in my fifteen years working in both incident response and overseeing security teams. The problem isn't necessarily on the personnel side, though. The problem is the mundane, repetitive tasks those teams do every day — too much manual work that's clogging the team's productivity. Security analysts are looking for a solution to reduce those monotonous, manual tasks so they can be freed up to work on high-value projects for their organization and do what they do best: analysis. 

No-code automation is that solution. Imagine having the ability to simply automate following up on suspicious log-ins or conducting secure employee onboarding and offboarding with only a few simple clicks — no need to know how to code. It not only has the potential to save a team time, but it's also a way to work smarter, not harder.

5 Skills SecOps Will Need to Effectively Protect Their Organization Going Forward

You hear it again and again: Security teams must be proactive, not simply reactive.

But you were being proactive means evolving your skills and practices. You can't stay on top of threats, create high-functioning teams, and scale your protection with outdated tools and methods of operations. As a leader of your security operations, preparing for the future of the industry means following evolving best practices and nurturing new skills development across team members.

Security Automation’s Next (and Best) Evolution Is No-Code and Here’s Why

The biggest challenge I saw in my 15 years as a security practitioner and overseeing security teams was analysts' time consumed by mundane, repetitive tasks that were taking them away from doing the work their skills suited them for, leading to burnout and human error. That's why automation has the potential to help reduce the load of overworked teams by automating low-value tasks and freeing up those analysts for more high-impact work, like improving an organization's security posture.

However, that potential hasn’t been realized with traditional approaches to automation — but it is with no-code automation, which brings increased value, productivity, and efficiency security managers teams are looking for.