The 3 Pivotal Players in Alert Management
Effective alert management is essential for a well-functioning Security Operations Center (SOC), and three key players are central to this process: Security Analysts, Threat Intelligence Analysts, and Incident Responders. Each of these roles plays a crucial part in triaging and responding to alerts. Let’s explore what each of them brings to the table:
Security Analysts
As the first line of defense, your security analysts are responsible for sifting through alerts, identifying suspicious activities, and determining which require further investigation. Their expertise lies in spotting patterns and anomalies within systems to identify potential threats and assess the severity and credibility of each alert.
Threat Intel Analysts
Your threat intel analysts provide critical context and insights, helping SOC teams understand the broader threat environment. They check every Indicator of Compromise (IoC) against your feeds, sift through for known attack patterns, assess potential impact, and relay the findings to your team.
Incident Responders
Your incident responders investigate, isolate, and ice true threats in their tracks. This often requires cross-functional coordination, determining the extent of the incident, preserving evidence, and conducting root cause analysis to prevent similar incidents in the future.
But alert fatigue can let tireless threats slip through systems like thieves in the daylight. Data deluges of threat intel (TI) leave SOC teams in a slow slog of quicksand. Phishing campaigns turn company emails into Pandora’s Inbox.
It’s a game your human security team can’t always win alone.
AI Agents for Alert Management
With Bricklayer AI, groups of autonomous AI specialists and human experts work together as a human + AI security team, far expanding what human-only teams can accomplish. You can easily deploy trained AI agents that fill an operational role which you would otherwise hire a human for — such as your security analysts, intelligence analysts, or incident responders.
AI Security Analysts
Bricklayer AI Security Analysts autonomously perform alert investigations, including summarization, IOC analysis, technique analysis, and report creation. Collaborating with Threat Intelligence Analysts and Incident Responders (human or agent!), they streamline triage, filter false positives, and enhance investigations with in-depth threat intelligence while ensuring compliance. These AI agents continuously learn and operate 24/7, adapting to stay ahead of evolving cyber threats.
AI Threat Intel Analysts
Bricklayer’s AI Threat Intel Analysts use advanced algorithms to sift through your threat intelligence feeds, check for any known attack patterns or signatures, assess potential impact, and capture the information for your human team. You can “hire” any number of these analysts, each with specific roles and workloads, for continuous, 24/7 threat intelligence coverage.
AI Incident Responders
Bricklayers’s AI Incident Responders detect suspicious activity and contain threats as needed, with human oversight ensuring accuracy. This blend of AI and human expertise enhances incident response, empowering teams to tackle advanced phishing attacks confidently. Autonomous and efficient, these AI specialists strengthen your IR team capabilities for faster, smarter threat management.
So how do you integrate these agents with your human team (and each other)?
Your playbook is finally here.
Learn how to scale your SOC with AI without increasing headcount in Bricklayer’s new SOC Alert Management Playbook.
