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How I Built an AI-Powered Alert Triage System in 2 Weeks (LangGraph + VirusTotal + MITRE ATT&CK)

DEV Community·stonebig12·6 months ago
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The Problem

Every SOC analyst and MSP team I've talked to has the same complaint:

"We get 200 alerts a day. Maybe 10 are real. But someone has to check all 200."

That's alert fatigue. And it's not a small problem — the average analyst spends 3-5 hours daily on manual triage. Most of that time is wasted on false positives.

I decided to build something to fix this. Two weeks later, I had a working MVP. Here's exactly how I built it.

The Architecture

The system has 4 main components:

Alert Input (Defender/SentinelOne/JSON) ↓ Alert Normalizer ↓ LangGraph Triage Agent ├── Enrich Node (VirusTotal + MITRE ATT&CK) ├── Analyze Node (LLM risk scoring) └── Human-in-the-Loop Node (Critical alerts) ↓ Output (Risk Score + Slack + Audit Log)

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Step 1: Alert Normalizer

The first challenge: every security tool outputs alerts in a different format.…

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