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Cyber security and risk management workflows

Cyber security and risk management workflows turn findings from Tenable, Qualys or Splunk into remediation tasks with an owner and a due date set by severity, route risk exceptions to the people who can accept them, and escalate what's overdue. Security sees the backlog by team, and asset owners see exactly what they owe.

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Deployed in DoD IL5 environments including Army INSCOM, with CAC sign-in and air-gapped installs available.

From scanner finding to verified fix

  1. Experience layer

    A task list where asset owners see the findings assigned to them in plain language with due dates, and a request form for risk exceptions and security reviews.

  2. Workflow layer

    Findings become owned tasks with due dates by severity, rescans close them, risk exceptions route for approval with an expiry date, and overdue items escalate to leadership.

  3. Integration layer

    Reads findings from Tenable, Qualys or Splunk, looks up asset owners in ServiceNow, and changes access in Active Directory and Okta when a finding requires it.

    • Splunk
    • Tenable
    • Qualys
    • Active Directory
    • Okta
    • ServiceNow

AI in cyber security and risk management

AI explains findings in plain language and suggests the owning team. Risk acceptance, deadline extensions and access changes are decided by people.

What AI does

  • Explains findings to asset owners in plain language
  • Classifies findings and suggests the owning team
  • Drafts risk exception summaries for approvers

Decided by people, not by AI

  • Risk acceptance and exceptions
  • Remediation deadline extensions
  • Access changes tied to findings

Findings without owners

The scanner finds 4,000 vulnerabilities this month. Security exports a spreadsheet, splits it by business unit and emails it out. Some teams fix things. Some reply asking which servers are theirs. Some don’t reply. Next month’s scan finds most of the same issues, and the security team spends a week working out which were fixed, which were accepted and by whom, and which were simply ignored.

The scanners are fine. The problem is the work after the scan, which runs on spreadsheets and email.

From finding to fix

Kinetic reads findings from Tenable, Qualys or your SIEM, groups them by asset and looks up the owner from your CMDB or asset records. Each owner gets a task, not a spreadsheet: the asset, the finding explained in plain language, the fix, and a due date set by severity. Critical findings might be due in 7 days and lows in 90, according to your policy.

When the owner marks it fixed, the next scan confirms it. If the finding is still there, the task reopens. Overdue tasks escalate to the owner’s manager and then to whoever you name.

Sometimes the fix isn’t possible: a vendor appliance that can’t be patched, a system being retired next quarter. The owner requests a risk exception with a reason and a proposed end date. It routes to the security lead and the business owner who will carry the risk. Approved exceptions expire on that date and come back for review.

Other workflows on the same base

The same pattern of intake, owner, due date and evidence covers other security work:

  • Security review requests for new applications or vendors, with questionnaires sent and tracked
  • Access changes that come out of a finding, run through your identity systems
  • Policy exception requests with sign-off and expiry

Security sees one view of everything open, by team and by age, and every exception has a named approver.

For the urgent side of security work, incident response orchestration uses the same connections to Okta, Active Directory and ServiceNow, and compliance and audit workflows turn the records into audit evidence. Deployment options for classified environments are on the security and deployment page.

What you can build next

The owner-and-deadline model extends to urgent incidents and to the evidence auditors ask for.

Questions about cyber security and risk management

Answered by Kinetic Data. Last updated .

  • Does Kinetic replace our vulnerability scanner or SIEM?

    No. Kinetic reads findings from those tools and runs the work that follows: assigning owners, tracking deadlines and approving exceptions. The scanners and SIEM stay your source of security data.

  • How do we avoid flooding owners with thousands of findings?

    You choose what becomes a task. Most teams group findings by asset and owner, start with critical and high severity, and let the rest stay in the scanner until they are in scope. The rules change as your program matures, without rebuilding the workflow.

  • Can Kinetic run in a classified or air-gapped environment?

    Yes. Kinetic is deployed in DoD IL5 environments, including at Army INSCOM, supports air-gapped installs and signs users in with CAC or PIV cards. See the security and deployment page for options.

  • How is the owner of a finding decided?

    From your asset records, usually the CMDB in ServiceNow, matched on host name or IP. Findings on assets without an owner go to a triage queue, and assigning them fixes the record for next time.

Bring one process. Leave with a plan to build it.

Two hours with our team, at no cost. Bring one process that crosses your systems. We map it with you, show what Kinetic would build, and send you a written plan afterward.

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