Incident detection and alerts

Purpose

1.1. To automate the detection of compliance and security incidents within military hospital environments.
1.2. Focuses on automating real-time alerts in response to unauthorized access, suspicious device activity, data leakage attempts, and medical device tampering.
1.3. Automates incident notification workflow to ensure regulatory, confidentiality, and operational protocols are met.
1.4. Enables secure, automated escalation by delivering immediate alerts to security and compliance officers, IT administrators, and crisis response teams.
1.5. Automates the logging and auditing of incident detection and response steps for post-incident analysis and compliance reporting.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Automated abnormal network traffic detection from connected medical devices.
2.2. Automated monitoring for unauthorized access attempts to EMR (Electronic Medical Records) or restricted zones.
2.3. Automated alerting on detected malware, ransomware activity, or unauthorized USB device insertion.
2.4. Automation when audit logs indicate policy violations or manipulation.
2.5. Automated triggers based on SIEM log analytics, custom policies, or baseline deviation.

Platform Variants

3.1. Splunk
• Feature/Setting: Security Event Analytics — Automate dashboards and alert actions for "notable" compliance incidents detected by SPL (Search Processing Language) queries.
3.2. Microsoft Sentinel
• Feature/Setting: Analytics Rule — Automate playbook triggers for alerts; configure Logic Apps for escalated automated notifications.
3.3. ServiceNow Security Operations
• Feature/Setting: Security Incident Response — Automates incident aggregation, escalation, and notification via Flow Designer.
3.4. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: Event Rules — Automate incident assignment and multi-channel alerting for compliance events.
3.5. IBM QRadar
• Feature/Setting: Offense Rules — Automate custom rules to trigger alerts on security offenses using AQL.
3.6. Datadog
• Feature/Setting: Security Signals — Automates detection rules for compliance deviations and integrates automated notification services.
3.7. Rapid7 InsightIDR
• Feature/Setting: Detection Rules & Automation — Automate creation of security alert rules and escalation workflows.
3.8. Graylog
• Feature/Setting: Event Definitions — Automates event triggers for abnormal activity and real-time alerting.
3.9. Elastic Security (Elastic SIEM)
• Feature/Setting: Detection Rules — Automate machine learning models and threshold alerts for incident detection.
3.10. Okta
• Feature/Setting: System Log API — Automate monitoring for unauthorized access events and trigger third-party notifications.
3.11. AWS CloudWatch
• Feature/Setting: Alarms & Events — Automate compliance alerting when policy-defined thresholds are breached.
3.12. Azure Monitor
• Feature/Setting: Log Alerts — Automates custom log query-based detection and automated responses.
3.13. Google Chronicle
• Feature/Setting: Detection Engine — Automate incident patterns and automated alert synchronization.
3.14. McAfee ePO (ePolicy Orchestrator)
• Feature/Setting: Automated Response Rules — Automate end-point alerts when compliance or security rules trigger.
3.15. Cisco SecureX
• Feature/Setting: Orchestration — Automates detection playbook for device/network anomalies.
3.16. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: Messaging API — Automates SMS alert delivery to on-call compliance/security staff via programmable triggers.
3.17. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Email API — Automates templated email alerts to designated emergency mailing lists.
3.18. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks — Automate security alert broadcasts to specific incident-response channels.
3.19. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Webhook Connector — Automates incident alert posting to compliance groups.
3.20. Jira Service Management
• Feature/Setting: Automation Rules — Automates ticket creation and workflow assignments from incident detections.
3.21. Zendesk
• Feature/Setting: Triggers & Automations — Automate compliance incident ticketing and agent assignment.
3.22. Freshservice
• Feature/Setting: Workflow Automator — Automatically route alerts and initiate compliance-related tasks.

Benefits

4.1. Automates early detection and response to high-risk security and compliance incidents in military hospital settings.
4.2. Ensures faster reaction, minimizes incident impact, and maintains automatable audit trails for regulatory compliance.
4.3. Reduces manual overhead in incident management by automating multi-platform alerting and escalation.
4.4. Automates evidence collection, enabling continuous improvement of hospital security automation policies.
4.5. Enhances overall healthcare delivery safety through robust automated incident detection and response.