SOAR is short for Security Orchestration, Automation and Response. I like to describe it as a [[Continuous Integration and Delivery|CICD]] system attached to a case management system. Most implementations use [[Docker]] for running so-called playbooks. The playbooks can do anything you want. You could:
- Send a message on Slack
- Query a log repository and print the result as a HTML table
- Trigger your smart [[Coffee]] maker early in the morning
- [Eliminate toil](https://sre.google/sre-book/eliminating-toil/) (as in [[Site Reliability Engineering]])
Your imagination is the limit.
One popular tool is [[Cortex XSOAR]] from Palo Alto Networks.