Streamlined alert triage prevents security teams from getting overwhelmed with false positives and low-priority notifications, enabling them to identify and respond to essential threats — and reducing the likelihood of a breach.
Threat intelligence software enhances alert triage by providing context and prioritization so security teams can quickly and efficiently distinguish real threats from false positives. ThreatConnect takes alert triage to the next level. Our platform enables teams to detect and mitigate risks quickly and efficiently by integrating intelligence across systems and automating analysis.
What Is Alert Triage in Cybersecurity?
Alert triage systematically evaluates, prioritizes, and responds to security alerts. It ensures security teams focus on the most critical threats.
An effective triage process helps organizations assess the severity of threats, correlate them with known attack patterns, and determine the appropriate response. By leveraging automation, threat intelligence, and predefined risk scoring, security teams can streamline workflows, reduce response times, and enhance overall threat detection and mitigation.
Steps in the Alert Triage Process
The alert triage process typically follows six key steps:
- Alert ingestion: Security tools generate alerts from various sources, including security information and event management (SIEM) software, firewalls, IDS/IPS, and endpoint protection systems which collect and feed alerts into a centralized platform.
- Initial evaluation and filtering: The platform filters out false positives, low-priority triage security alerts, and redundant notifications by leveraging automation and predefined rules.
- Contextual enrichment: Threat intelligence platforms provide additional context, pulling in external data — such as malicious IPs, attack patterns, and threat actor tactics — for analysts to assess threat severity.
- Prioritization and risk scoring: Analysts or automated tools assign risk scores to alerts based on severity, potential impact, and correlation with known threats.
- Investigation and correlation: Security analysts investigate high-priority alerts, connecting them with other incidents, logs, and indicators of compromise. They analyze the context to determine whether an alert involves a broader attack or an isolated event.
- Response and remediation: Teams quickly act on real threats. Their steps may include isolating affected areas, blocking malicious IP addresses, or applying patches.
How ThreatConnect Helps With Alert Triage
By automating alert triage processes, ThreatConnect minimizes the time spent on manual investigations. Customizable reports enable security teams to effectively communicate critical intelligence to stakeholders, enhancing the response process. ThreatConnect also elevates alert triage through:
- Centralized intelligence: The Platform aggregates threat intelligence from multiple sources into a unified threat library, reducing the time spent searching for context surrounding alerts.
- Threat scoring: The CAL™ feature leverages global threat data and community knowledge to score emerging threats so security teams can identify which ones to act on.
- Automated threat detection: ThreatConnect’s playbook and task automation allow security teams to respond to threats in seconds, minimizing the financial impact on your organization.
Why Trust Us?
ThreatConnect brings together a team of seasoned professionals with decades of expertise in threat intelligence, cybersecurity, software development, and security operations. Our deep knowledge base allows us to deliver advanced solutions, utilizing analytics, automation, and machine learning to streamline your security operations.
At ThreatConnect, we have a reputation for delivering consistent, reliable results for organizations worldwide. That’s why we’re trusted by top industry leaders, including four out of five top software companies and over 30 of the world’s largest financial institutions. We empower teams, simplify processes, and optimize security processes, ensuring your organization stays ahead of evolving cyber threats. Our platform’s robust capabilities, combined with our commitment to innovation and customer success, equip your security team to tackle threats with confidence and precision.
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