Automation & Orchestration – SOAR, Security Workflow.

In a Zero Trust architecture, access is never assumed—it must be continuously verified. The Automation & Orchestration Pillar provides a strategic framework to streamline, scale, and enforce Zero Trust policies across the enterprise. This pillar focuses on integrating telemetry, automating policy decisions, and orchestrating real-time responses to threats, ensuring consistent enforcement of security controls, and accelerating remediation across complex environments.

Each activity below supports the foundational Zero Trust principle: “Never trust, always verify.”

What Are the Automation & Orchestration Activities?

The Automation & Orchestration Pillar provides a framework for integrated visibility, policy enforcement, and coordinated response across your Zero Trust environment (Bold links will open the article directly; standard links require a free download of the full collection.):

Automation & Orchestration

The Automation & Orchestration Pillar focuses on automating security operations, streamlining policy updates, and orchestrating threat detection and response—enabling faster, more consistent enforcement of Zero Trust principles across users, devices, networks, and data.