Creating Cisco Secure Endpoint Response Action Rules

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You can create orchestration rules in USM Anywhere that automatically trigger a Cisco Secure Endpoint response action when events Any traffic or data exchange detected by AT&T Cybersecurity products through a sensor or external devices such as a firewall., alarms Alarms provide notification of an event or sequence of events that require attention or investigation., or vulnerabilities A known issue or weakness in a system, procedure, internal control, software package, or hardware that could be used to compromise security. match the criteria that you specify. For example, you might create a rule where USM Anywhere automatically triggers an action in your Cisco Secure Endpoint environment when malware is detected so that a member of your response team can manage and address the issue.

After you create a rule, new events, alarms, or vulnerabilities that match the rule conditions will trigger the Cisco Secure Endpoint response action. The rule does not trigger for existing events, alarms, or vulnerabilities.

You can create a new rule as follows:

  • From the Rules page: The Rules page provides access to all of your orchestration rules. The Orchestration Rules list includes suppression rules, alarm rules, event rules, filtering rules, notification rules, and response action rules. You can create new rules using the specific matching conditions that you define, as well as edit, delete, and enable or disable rules. See Orchestration Rules for more information about managing orchestration rules.

    Go to Settings > Rules and select Response Action Rules on the left navigation panel. Then click Create Response Action Rule to define the new rule.

To define a new Cisco Secure Endpoint response action rule

  1. Enter a name for the rule.

  2. Select the Sensor.
  3. Select the App Action for the rule.

  4. At the bottom of the dialog box, set the Rule Condition parameters to specify the criteria for a matching alarm or event to trigger the rule.

    Set the matching conditions for triggering the rule

    • If you create the rule from an applied action, this section provides suggested property/value pairs from the selected alarm or event that you can use as conditions for the rule. Click the icon to delete the items that you do not want to include in the matching conditions. You can also add other conditions that are not suggested.
    • If you create the rule from the Rules page, you must use the Add Condition and Add Group functions to define the property/value pairs that you want to use as conditions for the rule.
    • At the bottom of the dialog box, click More to display the optional multiple occurrence and window length parameters.
  5. Click Save Rule.
  6. In the confirmation dialog box, click OK.