Question

A company has been experiencing issues with operator fatigue within the cybersecurity team, leading to decreased alertness and cognitive function.

Considering different strategies to help combat this issue, how can automation and orchestration assist in addressing operator fatigue in security operations?

answer

By reducing the initial cost of implementing security measures.


By automating routine tasks, allowing cybersecurity personnel to focus on more complex, strategic issues.


By increasing the complexity of the company's systems and processes.


By enforcing standardized baselines and overriding unauthorized changes.

Answer 1

Correct answers:
- By automating routine tasks, allowing cybersecurity personnel to focus on more complex, strategic issues.
- By enforcing standardized baselines and overriding unauthorized changes.

Why:
- Automation/orchestration reduce repetitive, manual work and cognitive load (fewer alerts to triage, faster remediation), which directly combats fatigue.
- They can automatically ensure configurations and baseline states and remediate deviations, removing the need for constant human intervention.

Incorrect options:
- Reducing the initial cost of implementing security measures: not directly related to operator fatigue.
- Increasing complexity of systems and processes: this would likely worsen fatigue, not help.