Fast Incident Response (FIR) Integration with Threat Intelligence Management Platform (IMP)

Introduction

The blog explains how integrating Fast Incident Response (FIR) with a Threat Intelligence Management Platform (IMP) helps security teams accelerate investigation and response workflows. By enabling Fast Incident Response (FIR) Integration with Threat Intelligence, organizations can enrich incidents with contextual intelligence, reduce manual analysis, and improve decision-making. The focus is on leveraging automated intelligence ingestion to support faster triage, better prioritization, and more efficient incident handling.

Key Takeaways

• Automatic/manual creation and submission of FIR incidents/events to IMP with enriched artifact data.
• Redaction and secure sharing of FIR incidents/events with IMP groups for collaboration.
• Sharing of single or multiple FIR artifacts as IoCs with IMP groups.
• Faster SOC incident triage via intelligent workflows, reducing detection and response time.

Organizations today face a critical Cyber Threat Landscape as more software and hardware systems are becoming vulnerable to cyberattacks. Loginsoft has developed an Integration that ingests Fast Incident Response (FIR) Incidents/Events into the Intelligence Management Platform as well as fetch the enriched data found for the Incident’s Artifacts (from the IMP) and saves it to the FIR Incidents/Events for further investigation.

This Integration also shares FIR Incidents/Events/IoCs (Indicators of Compromise) with sharing groups in the IMP that helps streamline reporting and quickly prioritize the Incidents/ Events/IoCs in threat detection.

FIR Integration helps SOC professionals to triage Incidents/Events, reduce mean-time-to-detect and respond faster to Incidents/Events by using Intelligent workflows and Ticketing system.

Fast Incident Response Integration Highlights:

• Create, submit (Automatically and Manually) and share (Automatically and Manually) FIR Incidents/Events with the Intelligence Management Platform. Add IMP provided artifact’s enriched data to the FIR Incidents/Events.
• Redact FIR Incidents / Events and share with the Intelligence Management Platform groups.
• Share a Single FIR Artifact or Multiple Artifacts with the Intelligence Management Platform groups as IoCs.

Submitting FIR Incident/Event to IMP Automatically:

Submitting FIR Incident/Event to IMP Manually:

Conclusion

The blog highlights that effective Fast Incident Response (FIR) Integration with Threat Intelligence is essential for modern security operations. By combining FIR’s incident handling capabilities with a Threat Intelligence Management Platform, organizations can convert raw alerts into context-rich incidents faster. This integration enables security teams to respond efficiently, focus on high-impact threats, and improve overall incident response outcomes.

FAQ

Q1. What is Fast Incident Response (IR)?

FIR (Fast Incident Response) is an open-source, Python/Django-based cybersecurity incident management platform which empowers CSIRT/SOCs, and CERTs to swiftly create, track, analyze, report incidents, streamlining workflows, and try to accelerate recovery from cyberattacks.

Q2. Why integrate FIR with a Threat Intelligence Management Platform?

Integrating Fast IR into TIP, the response rate of auto-enriching data with threat context, prioritizing alerts, slashing MTTD/MTTR, and automating workflows, turning raw signals into proactive intel for minimal damage.

Q3. How does threat intelligence improve FIR workflows?

Threat Intelligence (TI) supercharges Incident Response (IR): shifting from reactive firefighting to proactive, data-driven defense, arming teams with rich context, automation, and foresight to detect, prioritize, and neutralize threats faster and smarter.

Q4. What benefits does Fast IR integration provide to security teams?

Fast IR integration empowers security teams to detect, contain, and recover cyber threats swiftly, slashing damage, financial losses, and reputational risks through seamless automation and cross-tool/team coordination.