From Playbooks to Gamebooks: Why Static Security Response Is Giving Attackers the Advantage

A decade ago, SOAR playbooks were revolutionary. They codified knowledge, accelerated response times, and freed analysts from repetitive tasks. But security operations made a critical error — we optimized for consistency in an environment that rewards adaptation.

Attackers read your playbooks too, not literally, but through reconnaissance and trial-and-error. They’ve learned which thresholds trigger alerts, which actions cause immediate containment, and which signals get ignored as noise. Every time your playbook executes the same…