TriageLensPart 1 - Business understanding

TriageLens - Part 1: Business understanding

One incident's journey

Follow one incident from raw evidence to the analyst's decision. Each step links back to the matching part of the brief.

The problem A tier-1 analyst faces a queue that is too long to read in full. Most incidents are false alarms or harmless, and about one in five is a real attack.

  1. 01Evidence rows
  2. 02One row per incident
  3. 03Graded
  4. 04Ranked in the queue
  5. 05Auto-close gate
  6. 06The analyst decides

Step 1 of 6

Evidence rows

Detection products (endpoint, email, identity, cloud) raise alerts. Related alerts are grouped into incidents, and each incident carries pieces of evidence: the devices, accounts, files, IP addresses and URLs involved.

One zip of 538,287,656 bytes that unzips to 3,513,509,243 bytes.

GUIDE_Train.csv
9,516,837 data rows
GUIDE_Test.csv
4,147,992 data rows

Step 2 of 6

One row per incident

In the files we downloaded, 23,670 of the 1,033,998 incidents have no grade. The remaining 1,010,328 split into 49.0% benign positive, 30.4% false positive and 20.6% true positive.

Step 3 of 6

Graded

Grade each incident as true positive (TP), benign positive (BP) or false positive (FP), with a confidence and the reasons behind it (detectors, categories, ATT&CK techniques, entity types).

Step 4 of 6

Ranked in the queue

Rank each organisation's queue so the incidents worth reading come first.

The ranks are about investigation priority, not about the grade: a top-ranked incident is not always a true positive.

Step 5 of 6

Auto-close gate

Propose auto-closes only where the chance of closing a real attack is held below a fixed limit, and send everything else to the analyst.

Safe auto-close - Target
Auto-close only at a threshold fixed on validation data where at most 1% of auto-closed incidents are TP

Step 6 of 6

The analyst decides

The analyst decides; the tool proposes.

TriageLens proposes grades, an order and auto-closes. It does not close or escalate anything by itself, and every auto-close proposal shows its confidence and reasons.

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