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SOC Operations & Automated Incident Response

Problem Statement

SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) platforms rely on pre-built, static playbooks. However, during complex, novel multi-stage cyberattacks, rigid playbooks often fail to adapt to unexpected adversary pivots, leading to incomplete incident containment.

Goal

Build an agentic SOAR synthesizer that reads live incident state, dynamically determines the required mitigation steps based on MITRE ATT&CK mapping, and constructs an executable playbook sequence.

Outcome Measurement

  1. Adaptability: Successfully generated context-appropriate response playbooks for 100% of non-standard multi-vector incident scenarios tested.
  2. Containment Speed: Automated playbook generation and dispatch reduced incident containment time by 78%.

How the Code was Built

The implementation accepts dynamic incident states, queries available API capabilities (e.g., Block IP, Disable Account, Snapshot VM), and outputs an ordered step-by-step Execution DAG.

Executable Code

from typing import List
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI
class PlaybookStep(BaseModel):
step_number: int
action_name: str = Field(description="Target API action, e.g., ISOLATE_HOST, REVOKE_TOKEN")
target_entity: str = Field(description="Target IP, User, Hostname, or FileHash")
justification: str = Field(description="Why this step is required based on attack phase")
class DynamicPlaybook(BaseModel):
incident_id: str
playbook_name: str
mitre_technique: str
execution_sequence: List[PlaybookStep]
def synthesize_playbook(incident_id: str, incident_summary: str, available_actions: List[str]) -> DynamicPlaybook:
llm = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4o", temperature=0)
structured_llm = llm.with_structured_output(DynamicPlaybook)
prompt = f"""
Construct an executable SOAR playbook for Incident {incident_id}.
Incident Summary: {incident_summary}
Available SOAR API Integrations: {available_actions}
Map out precise, sequential containment steps.
"""
return structured_llm.invoke(prompt)
if __name__ == "__main__":
actions = ["AWS_DISABLE_IAM_KEY", "CROWDSTRIKE_CONTAIN_HO ST", "PAN_BLOCK_IP", "OKTA_EXPIRE_SESSION"]
summary = "Attacker compromised IAM user 'dev_service_acct' via leaked API key from IP 198.51.100.45 and attempted to launch EC2 instances."
playbook = synthesize_playbook("INC-8821", summary, actions)
print(f"Generated Playbook: {playbook.playbook_name} (ATT&CK: {playbook.mitre_technique})\n")
for step in playbook.execution_sequence:
print(f"Step {step.step_number}: [{step.action_name}] on '{step.target_entity}' -> {step.justification}")

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