Decision inputs
Facts that change the policy answer
For this request, alert telemetry, asset context and detection rules is the input boundary and a suggested alert priority is the output boundary. A useful check makes both explicit.
- 1Task and owner
- Security operations analyst wants to classify security alerts. Record the person who will stand behind a suggested alert priority after the tool has finished.
- 2Information involved
- Alert telemetry, asset context and detection rules. Account for every route by which the tool receives the material, including plug-ins and linked storage.
- 3Tool and account
- An approved company account. Treat a new plug-in or connector as a change to the approved setup.
- 4Intended result
- The expected result is a suggested alert priority. Record the audience and the next system in the chain, rather than describing the output only as a draft.
- 5Consequence if it is wrong
- A false negative can hide an attack while a false positive can waste response capacity. The policy route should reflect this possible harm instead of relying on how ordinary the task sounds.
- 6Human review
- security operations owner should inspect, change, reject or stop the result. The reviewer needs the source material and must be able to reject the output before it takes effect.
Possible policy routes
The task name alone cannot decide it.
A published workplace policy can return different answers for the same task. These are the practical branches worth encoding.
A routine policy route may be possible
The request may fit ordinary policy handling once the exact account is approved, only the minimum sensitive security telemetry is used, a suggested alert priority remains within the stated purpose, and security operations owner reviews it before use.
Approval may be required
Pause the ordinary route whenever the account or data handling is uncertain, a false negative can hide an attack while a false positive can waste response capacity, or a suggested alert priority reaches people or systems beyond the requester’s authority.
The request may need to stop or change
The company may need a safer design when restricted information would enter an unapproved service, the output would act before security operations owner can intervene, or retain analyst override and monitor missed and incorrectly escalated alerts cannot be maintained. Consider less information, a controlled account or a non-AI process.
Request checklist
Questions to ask before using the tool
- 01
Will classify security alerts run inside the approved company environment from start to finish?
- 02
Does the proposed input include more of alert telemetry, asset context and detection rules than the result actually requires?
- 03
At what point does a suggested alert priority move beyond the requester’s private draft?
- 04
Who replaces security operations owner when the request falls outside ordinary expertise?
- 05
Does the intended use extend beyond the region and audience covered by the current policy?
Worked request
What the employee should submit
This example supplies decision facts without pasting the underlying material into the approval record.
- requester
- security operations analyst
- task
- Use AI to classify security alerts.
- information
- alert telemetry, asset context and detection rules
- tool
- An approved company account
- frequency
- Recurring work
- region
- Where the work and affected people are located
- purpose
- Analyse
- impact
- Security prioritisation
- review
- Complete human review
- owner
- security operations owner
Useful safeguards
Controls that fit this request
- ✓
Retain analyst override and monitor missed and incorrectly escalated alerts
- ✓
Start with a de-identified sample of alert telemetry, asset context and detection rules before considering broader access.
- ✓
Keep the use within analyse and run another check if the audience, tool or intended effect changes.
- ✓
Record the request and reviewer without copying unnecessary parts of alert telemetry, asset context and detection rules into the audit trail.
Questions people ask
About this AI use
Is using AI to classify security alerts automatically allowed?
The task name cannot settle the answer. Apply the company’s published rules to alert telemetry, asset context and detection rules, the exact account, a suggested alert priority, its audience and the proposed review.
When is the request detailed enough to decide?
Describe a suggested alert priority, identify alert telemetry, asset context and detection rules, name the exact tool and account, explain who will receive or rely on the output, and state how security operations owner will review it.
What belongs in the completed policy record?
Record the request and reviewer without copying unnecessary parts of alert telemetry, asset context and detection rules into the audit trail. A classification and controlled reference may be enough when copying alert telemetry, asset context and detection rules would create unnecessary risk.