Triaging Security Incidents with IR Playbooks When to Use - New security alert received from SIEM, EDR, or other detection sources - SOC analyst needs to determine if an alert is a true positive requiring response - Incident needs severity classification and team assignment - Multiple concurrent incidents require prioritization - Automated triage rules need validation or tuning Prerequisites - SIEM platform with alert correlation (Splunk, Elastic, QRadar, Sentinel) - Incident response playbook library (by incident type) - Severity classification matrix approved by CISO - On-call rotation and…