Continuous Monitoring
Assets are monitored to find anomalies, indicators of compromise, and other potentially adverse events
Tools for continuous monitoring
Hosted MCP servers your agents can use for these controls.
Starter prompts
Paste into Claude Code, Microsoft Copilot, or Codex connected to Tracecat MCP, and build it out together.
Triage CrowdStrike detections
Build me a detection triage automation in Tracecat. Pull new CrowdStrike detections, mark them in progress, and check each process hash against VirusTotal. Open a Jira ticket per confirmed detection and post a summary to Slack. First help me understand how this maps to DE.CM-09 and what good continuous monitoring looks like. Ask me which Jira project and Slack channel to use. Talk me through whether this works better as a scheduled workflow or an agent.
Hunt for beaconing in network logs
Build me a scheduled threat hunt in Tracecat. Query Splunk every morning for outbound connections that repeat on a fixed interval, score each source host by interval regularity and destination rarity, and check the top destinations against GreyNoise. Open a case for anything that looks like command and control and post the daily summary to Slack. First help me understand how this maps to DE.CM-01 and how beaconing shows up in network logs. Ask me which index my network logs live in and what schedule fits my team. Talk me through tuning the scoring before we automate it.
Watch sign-ins and risky consent grants
Build me an automation in Tracecat that monitors sign-in activity and OAuth consent grants in Microsoft Entra ID. Flag new high-privilege grants, impossible travel, and sign-ins from unmanaged devices. Open a case per flagged user with the evidence attached and notify the IAM team in Slack. First help me understand how this maps to DE.CM-03 and where monitoring personnel activity crosses into privacy territory I should be careful with. Ask me which signals matter most in my environment. Talk me through whether this should run as a scheduled workflow or an agent that reviews each sign-in alert.
Monitor external service providers
Build me a vendor monitoring automation in Tracecat. Watch my SaaS providers' audit logs for new admin accounts, API keys, and permission changes, and track vendor breach disclosures from threat intel feeds. Open a case when a provider shows unusual activity and tag it with the affected vendor. First help me understand how this maps to DE.CM-06 and what external service provider monitoring usually misses. Ask me which providers carry the most risk for us. Talk me through what I can realistically monitor with the API access I have.
Detect software and config drift
Build me a drift detection automation in Tracecat. Compare the software inventory from Jamf against my approved list every week, flag unapproved installs and disabled security agents, and check runtime config changes in Datadog. Open a ServiceNow ticket per host that drifts and post a weekly summary to Slack. First help me understand how this maps to DE.CM-09 and why runtime monitoring matters beyond inventory. Ask me where my approved software list lives. Talk me through how strict the enforcement should be before we automate ticketing.
Controls
- DE.CM-01AC-2AU-12CA-7CM-3SC-5SC-7SI-4
Networks and network services are monitored to find potentially adverse events
- DE.CM-02CA-7PE-3PE-6PE-20
The physical environment is monitored to find potentially adverse events
- DE.CM-03AC-2AU-12AU-13CA-7CM-10CM-11
Personnel activity and technology usage are monitored to find potentially adverse events
- DE.CM-06CA-7PS-7SA-4SA-9SI-4
External service provider activities and services are monitored to find potentially adverse events
- DE.CM-09AC-4AC-9AU-12CA-7CM-3CM-6CM-10CM-11SC-34SC-35SI-4SI-7
Computing hardware and software, runtime environments, and their data are monitored to find potentially adverse events
Control text and SP 800-53 Rev 5 references from the official NIST CSF 2.0 and OLIR releases.
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