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A global financial institution needs to automate its compliance auditing process for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). This involves regularly checking system configurations, access controls, and data handling procedures across thousands of servers and applications, then generating reports for auditors. Which Cortex XSOAR feature set is best suited for this task?
- AThreat Hunting Playbooks and Dashboards
- BCompliance Automation Playbooks
- CVulnerability Management Orchestration
- DAutomated Incident Response Workflows
Show answer & explanationAnswer & explanation
Correct answer: B. Compliance Automation Playbooks
Compliance Automation Playbooks are specifically designed to automate the collection of configuration data, audit logs, and access control information, compare it against regulatory requirements, and generate the necessary reports for compliance audits, directly addressing the scenario's needs.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Threat Hunting Playbooks are for proactively searching for threats, not compliance auditing.
- C. Vulnerability Management Orchestration identifies and remediates system flaws, which is related to security but not the primary function of compliance auditing.
- D. Automated Incident Response Workflows focus on managing and remediating security incidents, not regulatory checks.
Compliance Automation
The use of automation tools and processes to streamline and enforce adherence to regulatory requirements and internal policies.
- Reduces manual effort in compliance auditing.
- Ensures consistent application of controls across the environment.
- Generates audit-ready reports automatically.
Memory trick: XSOAR helps you stay compliant, no sweat!