Alert Routing or Investigation:
Know What You're Buying
Our guide scores your current SOC model against four autonomy levels, three accuracy numbers to demand from any vendor, and five human red lines, so you can:
Why Use the Alert Routing or Investigation Guide?
Average breakout time now sits at 29 minutes, with a fastest recorded time of 27 seconds, while most SOC teams still run on a 50-hour coverage schedule.
Know the four autonomy levels.
The guide separates alert routing from assisted triage, autonomous investigation, and gated response, so you can name what a vendor actually sells.
Replace a single accuracy claim.
The guide pairs suppression rate with recall and absolute alert counts, so a vendor's headline percentage survives contact with your own queue.
Bring one checklist to every vendor call.
The eight-question evaluation checklist covers autonomy level, auto-close rate, absolute alert volume, and who approves regulated decisions, in writing.
Verify claims with a bake-off.
The two-week parallel-run protocol compares verdicts case by case against your own team, turning a vendor pitch into measured evidence.
What's Inside?
A four-level autonomy ladder that separates alert routing from assisted triage, autonomous investigation, and gated response, naming exactly what leaves your queue permanently at each stage.
Three accuracy numbers to request from any vendor, false-positive suppression, absolute alerts per shift, and the dwell-time outcome metric, tested against a documented base-rate example.
A five-point escalation table naming ambiguous identifiers, cross-system correlation, novel techniques, irreversible actions, and regulated decisions as the exact places a human must sign off.
An eight-question evaluation checklist covering autonomy level, auto-close rate and recall, absolute alert count, approval list, and a two-week bake-off protocol you can send to any shortlisted vendor.
Get the Alert Routing or Investigation Guide
to score your current SOC model, demand three real accuracy numbers, and run a two-week bake-off before you sign.
Download the Guide
Why UnderDefense?
At UnderDefense, we run autonomous investigation on top of your existing SIEM and EDR, closing cases your team would otherwise still open.
- Vendor-agnostic SIEM integration – Layers on top of your existing stack.
- Documented 2-minute alert-to-triage speed – Every investigation begins before your analyst notices.
- MITRE ATT&CK coverage mapping – 96% coverage, auditable in your language.
- Independent bake-off validation – 99.3% agreement with your in-house SOC team.
- Human approval on containment – Every irreversible or regulated action needs sign-off.
