Overview
The CISA Cybersecurity Executive Briefing workflow is a critical tool for maintaining organizational situational awareness without manual effort. It addresses the challenge of threat intelligence overload by continuously monitoring the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) alerts. This template filters the noise, identifies the most recent and relevant security events, and uses sophisticated LLM capabilities to analyze, summarize, and categorize threats, delivering a professional, highly structured intelligence report tailored for CISOs, security VPs, and other senior executives.
Who This Is For
- Executive Daily Intelligence Briefing: CISOs, security VPs, and other decision-makers benefit from automatically generated daily briefings delivered via email or instant messaging, enabling rapid comprehension of key threat developments.
- SOC Automation and Alerts: The Security Operations Center (SOC) team gains daily automated threat notifications, ensuring frontline personnel are promptly informed of newly emerging vulnerabilities and attack activities that require immediate attention.
- Threat Intelligence Platform Data Source: The workflow serves as an automated component for threat intelligence collection by preliminarily filtering, cleaning, and formatting CISA alerts, providing high-quality, structured input for subsequent in-depth analysis and correlation.
How It Works
- Real-Time Data Acquisition
- Using an HTTP Request node, the workflow connects to and fetches the latest cybersecurity alerts in real-time from CISA’s official XML RSS feed.
- Intelligent Filtering and Preprocessing
- The workflow iterates through all fetched news items, enforcing a strict filter for alerts published within the last 24 hours. It cleans the data by converting complex HTML content into clean plain text and combines the item details (title, link, date, description) into a unified string, preparing the raw data for AI analysis.
- AI-Powered Editing and Generation
- An integrated LLM node categorizes each filtered news item into predefined groups (e.g., Vulnerabilities, Breaches/Ransomware). For executive consumption, the AI generates a concise 1–2 sentence summary and, crucially, adds a "Why it matters" statement for immediate impact assessment. The final output is structured as a strict JSON object ready for email delivery.
What You'll Need
- Email Authorization: The Send Mail node must be authorized with valid credentials to access your email account (e.g., Gmail).
- Recipient Email Address: The target email address for the executive briefing must be entered in the To field of the Start node.
- (Optional) Scheduled Trigger: To ensure daily, automatic delivery, the workflow should be configured with a scheduled trigger (e.g., running every day at 8:00 AM).
How to Use
- Step 1.Authorize Email
- In the credentials section, connect the workflow to the Gmail account that will be sending the daily briefing.
- Step 2.Set Recipient
- Enter the email address of the target executive(s) in the designated To field.
- Step 3.Activate Schedule (Recommended)
- Set up a trigger to run the workflow at a specific time each workday morning.
- Step 4.Automated Delivery
- The workflow will automatically fetch, analyze, summarize, and email the professional cybersecurity briefing without any further manual intervention.
