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Managing incidents manually isn’t realistic when their number keeps growing. That’s where automated incident response tools come in. They handle routine tasks so you can focus on actual problem-solving. In this blog, I’ve put together a list of the 9 best automated incident response tools for you. I looked at each one based on four key areas of the incident response process. This will help you see how they handle everything from start to finish.

While writing our 2024 recap, we found that teams handled over 2.2 million new incidents. Critical incidents alone tripled, increasing from 3,000 in 2023 to 9,200 in 2024. Dealing with such a large volume of incidents is not an easy task. And dealing with them manually is definitely not easy. Your valuable time goes into routine tasks like creating tickets, setting up war rooms, and notifying stakeholders. These keep you from fixing the actual problem.