How to Build a Security Incident Digest Workflow
An agentic workflow that gets security alerts and summarizes and posts them in a Slack channel.
Connectors and tools
Slack
DataDog
Notion
PagerDuty
Created by
xpander.ai
Built for
Enterprise SOC analysts
DevSecOps and site reliability engineers (SREs)
Security Managers and VPs
Challenge
Enterprise security and operations teams often struggle to maintain real-time observability across disconnected SIEM tools and static frameworks, leading to delayed incident management, deployment risks, and inconsistent adherence to best practices. By utilizing autonomous orchestration to handle the workflow automation, this agent eliminates the bottleneck of manual triage and integration, allowing teams to instantly classify alerts and trigger the correct response playbook for production environments, streamlining the path to secure scaling.
How the workflow works
Below is how the agentic workflow works:
1. Security alert ingestion: The enterprise workflow monitors the production environment and detects a new security alert triggered via a dedicated integration tool from a SIEM like Datadog.
2. Context retrieval and orchestration: The workflow performs autonomous orchestration by searching internal runbooks (in Notion, Google Docs, and similar) to retrieve relevant best practices and standard operating procedures.
3. Incident analysis and Ccassification: The workflow triggers an AI agent that uses advanced frameworks to analyze the alert data, classify the incident severity, and select the optimal response playbook for automation.
4. Response and escalation: The workflow notifies the team in Slack and, if the incident requires critical attention, triggers escalation via PagerDuty, ensuring robust incident management and observability.
Key benefits
- Rapid incident classification: By utilizing autonomous analysis, the AI agent instantly classifies incoming alerts, significantly reducing the time between detection and the selection of the correct response playbook.
- Reduced alert fatigue via automation: By handling the initial triage and only triggering escalation when necessary, the automation prevents burnout among enterprise security teams dealing with high volumes of signals
- Seamless enterprise integration: The workflow offers deep integration with critical enterprise infrastructure tools, allowing for a unified management experience without replacing existing investments.
- Enhanced observability and context: By automatically pulling context from documentation, the agent provides richer observability into incidents, enabling faster resolution and better decision-making than manual deployment of resources.
