Abstract: A security operations system may receive an alarm in response to a detected threat. The alarm may include characteristics of the threat. The system may then generate a record in response to the alarm and populate a form with the characteristics of the threat. The form may be associated with the record and selected in response to a type of the threat. The system may further generate a workflow including at least one but potentially multiple actions. The system also receives security contextual information in response to a request including the characteristics of the threat or associated indicators of the threat and then updates the form to include the security contextual information. The security operations system can evaluate contextual information and request additional information, as well as leverage workflow to take iterative changes to rulesets and configurations, to provide additional security protection or garner additional information on a threat.

Abstract: The invention includes a computerized method for interfacing with a security hardware appliance for assessing potential remedial action in response to a potential information security threat by automatically ingesting and parsing incoming alerts from a security hardware appliance, automatically extracting relevant data elements from the alert, using the extracted information to supplement the alert by querying and retrieving from other systems, and automatically ranking the alerts in terms of importance using an engine that combines information, and issuing a command to take remedial, containment, or other programmed action on the alerts automatically.