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An organization's security team integrates an automated SOAR playbook with their container orchestration platform to terminate and redeploy application pods whenever runtime security threats are detected. Following a threat feed update, a high volume of false-positive alerts triggers continuous pod terminations, resulting in an application service outage. Which of the following workflow modifications best prevents this cascading operational disruption while preserving automated remediation capabilities?

  1. Implement rate-limiting thresholds and conditional human-in-the-loop approval triggers within the playbook logic before executing bulk pod terminations.Cevap
  2. B
    Reconfigure the playbook to automatically isolate the underlying Kubernetes worker nodes immediately upon ingesting any runtime threat alert.
  3. C
    Replace the active SOAR containment playbook with a passive network intrusion detection system rule to log recurring alert occurrences.
  4. D
    Update the SOAR platform service account authentication method to utilize short-lived OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens instead of long-lived API keys.

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Implementing rate-limiting thresholds and conditional human-in-the-loop approval triggers within the playbook logic prevents runaway automated pod terminations while maintaining automated response capabilities.
The correct response introduces rate limiting and conditional human-in-the-loop approval steps into the SOAR workflow. This ensures that high-volume or rapid-succession actions are paused for analyst verification, preventing automated playbooks from causing large-scale availability outages while retaining rapid response capabilities for isolated incidents.

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1
Analyze the operational incident root cause.
The availability outage was caused by an unconstrained SOAR playbook repeatedly executing containment actions based on high-frequency alert triggers.
Automated security orchestration workflows without execution bounds or safety guardrails risk causing self-inflicted denial-of-service conditions.
2
Evaluate containment guardrail controls for SOAR playbooks.
Rate limiting restricts the number of actions executed per time window, and human-in-the-loop (HITL) approval pauses mass actions for verification.
Balancing security automation with operational resilience requires guardrails that catch false-positive loops before impacting critical infrastructure.

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