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SOAR & Playbook Orchestration Agents

Problem Statement

When a zero-day vulnerability is announced without an available software patch (e.g., Log4Shell, Spring4Shell), organizations must deploy temporary network micro-segmentation rules or WAF mitigation patches to prevent exploitation.

Goal

Deploy an agent that reads zero-day vulnerability advisories and auto-synthesizes software mitigations, egress filter blocks, and dynamic WAF rules.

Outcome Measurement

  1. Protection Time: Emergency mitigation rules deployed within 10 minutes of advisory publishing.
  2. Service Availability: Zero disruption to unaffected application routes.

How the Code was Built

Translates vulnerability advisory text directly into declarative network access control list (NACL) configurations.

Executable Code

from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI
class ZeroDayMitigation(BaseModel):
vulnerability_id: str
affected_ports: list[int]
waf_rule_regex: str
iptables_block_command: str
mitigation_notes: str
def generate_zero_day_containment(advisory_text: str) -> ZeroDayMitigation:
llm = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4o", temperature=0)
structured_llm = llm.with_structured_output(ZeroDayMitigation)
prompt = f"Analyze zero-day vulnerability advisory and generate emergency network containment configuration:\n{advisory_text}"
return structured_llm.invoke(prompt)
if __name__ == "__main__":
advisory = "CVE-2026-9999 allows remote code execution via HTTP Header 'X-Api-Exploit' targeting web apps listening on port 8080."
res = generate_zero_day_containment(advisory)
print(f"CVE ID: {res.vulnerability_id}")
print(f"WAF Regex Rule: {res.waf_rule_regex}")
print(f"CLI Rule: {res.iptables_block_command}")

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