About alerts

In KUMA, an alert is created when a sequence of events is received that triggers a correlation rule. Correlation rules are created by KUMA analysts to check incoming events for possible security threats, so when a correlation rule is triggered, it's a warning there may be some malicious activity happening. Security officers should investigate these alerts and respond if necessary.

KUMA automatically assigns the severity to each alert. This parameter shows how important or numerous the processes are that triggered the correlation rule. Alerts with higher severity should be dealt with first. The severity value is automatically updated when new correlation events are received, but a security officer can also set it manually. In this case, the alert severity is no longer automatically updated.

Alerts have related events linked to them, making alerts enriched with data from these events. KUMA also offers drill down functionality for alert investigations.

You can create incidents based on alerts.

Alert management in KUMA is described in this section.