SOC team told they aren’t allowed to have response permissions from a cloud detection and response platform?!
Long story short, company bought a CDR tool, our lead IR analyst was in the process of transitioning our manual playbooks to include automated and semi-automated response actions such as making a storage account private, isolating a vm, etc, then someone from the architecture team shut it down and said we aren’t allowed to have response permissions because they are too powerful.
Our entire team is in shock as we’ve been wanting to speed up our response times for common investigations we see but it’s discouraging that one person can just shut everything down.
How would you guys handle this type of situation? We want to escalate to leadership immediately.