Zel XDR AI-Powered Detection, Triage, and Response

ZelXDR is an AI-powered extended detection and response platform designed to unify detection, investigation, triage, incident handling, threat hunting, endpoint visibility, telemetry analysis, response orchestration, governance, and reporting inside one premium security operations experience. ZelXDR is not just an alert console. It is a full cyber operations command platform where defenders can: detect threats understand risk investigate deeply correlate signals hunt proactively take response actions generate executive-ready output operate with AI assistance through AINA

The platform must solve these major operational problems: too many alerts with too little context fragmented tools across endpoint, identity, cloud, network, email, and threat intelligence slow triage slow incident understanding weak visibility into entity relationships inconsistent reporting weak governance around detections, tuning, exceptions, and integrations difficulty operationalizing AI in real SOC workflows ZelXDR should give users one operational surface where signals become decisions and decisions become action.

Analyst Consumes alerts, events, anomalies, entity pivots, IOC searches, and investigations. Needs fast triage, good context, AI support, and clear next actions. Threat Hunter Uses hunt workspace, queries, saved hunts, hunt templates, IOC and entity pivots, historical search, baselines, and anomalies. Needs speed, flexibility, and reusable logic. Incident Responder Needs incident summaries, blast radius, linked evidence, endpoint state, containment actions, case workflows, and executive-ready reporting. Detection Engineer Builds and tunes rules, correlation logic, behavioral detections, scheduled rules, severity mappings, threat scoring, MITRE mappings, detection packs, QA, and change logs. SOC Lead / Manager Needs dashboards, workload visibility, SLA views, reporting, trend summaries, analyst pressure, and executive communication support. Administrator Manages users, RBAC, teams, groups, approvals, secrets, certificates, retention, backups, audit logs, settings, AI configuration, and integrations. Executive / Leadership Consumes executive summaries, business impact, board-level risk reporting, incident briefings, and business-priority exposure views.

ZelXDR should be organized into these primary navigation domains: Command Center Incidents Alerts Investigations Cases Detections Threat Hunt Telemetry Assets Endpoints Identity Cloud Network Email Security Threat Intelligence Response and Automation AINA Reports Dashboards Search Knowledge Center Integrations Tenants Administration System Settings Each domain must feel distinct but interconnected.

The Command Center is the high-level operational hub. It should include: SOC Overview Executive Overview Live Activity Open Risk Snapshot Detection Health Incident SLA Analyst Workload AINA Highlights Recently Contained Threats Threat Graph Zelfire page if used as an integration fabric Command Center should answer: What is happening now What is most urgent What is degrading What needs action first What is the AI saying What is the business impact

This module manages incident-level workflows. Required capabilities: open incidents critical incidents major incidents escalated incidents merged incidents closed incidents incident timeline SLA tracking post-incident reviews related incidents linked evidence linked alerts linked entities linked vulnerabilities linked anomalies linked hunts linked cases containment readiness business impact view blast radius view executive summary generation incident note generation assignment status changes priority changes merge and split logic AI incident understanding Incident details should show: incident title severity confidence status owner created time updated time affected entities linked evidence timeline of events recommended next actions AI summary AI explainability blast radius related objects

This is the entry point for large alert volume. Required capabilities: live alert feed correlated alerts unassigned alerts acknowledged alerts escalated alerts suppressed alerts duplicate alerts closed alerts exceptions search filtering bulk actions AI triage duplicate detection entity clustering alert-to-incident promotion false positive analysis Alert details should show: alert title source severity status confidence linked rule linked tactic linked entities linked evidence AI summary duplicate likelihood escalation candidate state analyst actions

This is the deep operational workspace for evidence and reasoning. Required capabilities: investigation queue my investigations entity timeline process tree view user session view evidence locker notes tasks related events related incidents related assets timeline view AI reasoning manual and AI enrichment linked reports linked case handoff Investigation objects should support: open edit assign tag link evidence link entities link cases link incidents generate note generate executive summary close escalate

Case management must support: open cases in progress cases awaiting approval awaiting response closed cases case templates case collaboration attachments legal hold lessons learned Case functionality: owner assignment priority status approval steps response tracking attachments linked investigations linked incidents linked notes tasks comments watchers subtasks history timeline AI summaries case recommendations exportable case reports

This is the full detection engineering and governance center. Required sections: Detection Rules Correlation Rules Behavioral Detections Analytics Rules Scheduled Rules Threat Scoring Logic Severity Mapping MITRE Mappings Detection Packs Detection QA Rule Tuning Rule Exceptions Detection Change Log This area must support: authoring editing cloning enabling disabling testing simulation tuning version history change tracking approval flows QA workflows mapping to ATT&CK linking to playbooks performance measurement noise tracking false positive tracking coverage gap tracking

This module must feel like a full proactive hunt platform. Required sections: Hunt Workspace Query Builder Saved Hunts Hunt Templates IOC Search Entity Pivot Search Historical Search Baselines Anomalies Hunt Results Hunt Notes Core capabilities: hypothesis management query authoring saved logic reusable templates IOC enrichment and lookup entity pivots historical search baseline comparison anomaly review cluster review hunt result scoring note writing escalation to incident or case AI hunt suggestions AI pivot suggestions AI summary and action generation

This module manages raw and processed security data. Required sections: Event Explorer Raw Logs Normalized Events Enriched Events Parser Health Collector Health Ingestion Pipelines Event Replay Data Latency Retention Status Required capabilities: live stream historical search raw payload viewing normalized event browsing schema awareness field completeness parser status collector status replay controls latency analysis duplicate detection malformed record review event pivots to alerts, incidents, hunts, entities, and rules

Asset visibility and exposure must be first-class. Required sections: Asset Inventory Critical Assets High-Risk Assets New Assets Unmanaged Assets Asset Relationships Risk Scoring Owners and Tags Asset Groups Exposure View Capabilities: asset discovery criticality scoring business ownership tagging relationship graph grouping identity linkage vulnerability linkage incident linkage threat history policy coverage environment tagging risk prioritization

Required sections: Agent Management Agent Downloads Agent Groups Agent Policies Endpoint Activity Endpoint Timeline File Integrity Vulnerability View Isolation Actions Response History Health and Heartbeat Version Compliance Capabilities: endpoint enrollment health monitoring policy sync timeline history heartbeat visibility version tracking group assignment quarantine/isolation recovery remote state awareness agent health tamper signals vulnerability linkage response history

Required sections: User Risk Sign-In Activity Impossible Travel Privileged Accounts MFA Coverage Account Lockouts Suspicious Sessions Lateral Movement Signals Entitlement Changes Service Accounts Identity Timeline Capabilities: identity-centric risk scoring privileged identity visibility session history authentication anomalies role and entitlement changes linked endpoint activity linked cloud activity impossible travel logic service account behavior identity-to-incident linkage

Required sections: Cloud Accounts Subscriptions and Projects Workloads Cloud Activity Cloud Detections Resource Exposure Storage Exposure IAM Changes Cloud Timeline Cloud Response Actions Cloud Posture Summary Capabilities: cloud activity visibility multi-cloud support resource relationships identity and access linkage storage exposure tracking workload security context cloud incident linkage cloud posture visibility response action support cross-account or cross-project analysis

Required sections: Network Alerts Connections DNS Activity East-West Traffic Firewall Events IDS and NDR Signals VPN Activity Blocked Traffic Beaconing Detection Network Timeline Network Maps Capabilities: flow analysis DNS intelligence beaconing visibility east-west risk blocked traffic review network alert linkage network-to-endpoint and network-to-identity correlation map view threat route visualization if applicable

Required sections: Phishing Incidents Malicious Attachments Malicious Links User Reported Emails Quarantined Messages Sender Intelligence Mailbox Abuse Executive Impersonation Email Timeline Capabilities: email event review message-level detail user-report handling sender reputation attachment and link analysis mailbox abuse investigation executive impersonation tracking incident creation from email events

Required sections: IOC Feeds Watchlists Indicators Malware Families Threat Actors Campaigns TTP Library Intel Sources Feed Health Enrichment History Custom Intelligence Capabilities: indicator ingestion threat actor mapping malware family linkage campaign modeling watchlist management feed health enrichment history custom intel entry internal and external feed blending

Required sections: Playbooks Active Response Approval Queue Containment Actions Host Isolation User Disable Actions IP and Domain Blocking Ticketing Actions Automation Logs Rollback History Response Templates Capabilities: manual response assisted response playbook execution response approval gating rollback support action history AI-recommended response safe mode execution containment workflows ticketing integration

AINA is the AI layer across the entire platform. Required sections: AI Triage AI Incident Summary AI Correlation Reasoning AI Next Best Action AI Root Cause View Ask AINA Prompt Templates Confidence and Explainability AI Audit Log AI Output Review AINA must support: triage incident summarization root cause reasoning blast radius estimation duplicate analysis false positive review MITRE suggestions executive brief generation analyst note generation case summary writing report narrative generation recommendation engine uncertainty explanation model selection from settings real provider configuration audit trail safe server-side usage

Reports must support: executive reports SOC reports incident reports detection reports hunt reports response reports compliance reports MTTR and MTTD scheduled reports export center report templates Branding support must include: logo title subtitle classification label footer watermark report theme cover page brand colors customer-safe mode executive-ready mode internal mode

Required sections: Executive Dashboard SOC Dashboard Detection Dashboard Incident Dashboard Endpoint Dashboard Identity Dashboard Cloud Dashboard Network Dashboard Threat Intel Dashboard Custom Dashboards Capabilities: save custom layouts role-aware dashboards widget pinning time filters business unit filters tenant filters AI summary overlay export view

Required sections: Global Search Search Alerts Search Incidents Search Entities Search IOCs Search Users Search Assets Search Saved Queries Capabilities: cross-domain search faceted filtering saved searches recent searches search pivots AI query suggestions ZelC query integration

Required sections: Runbooks Investigation Guides Response Guides Detection Library MITRE Knowledge Analyst Notes Internal Playbooks Lessons Learned FAQ Capabilities: knowledge article creation search versioning link to incidents and cases AI-assisted summary AI-assisted article drafting team sharing

Must support: Data Sources Connectors API Keys Webhooks Syslog Sources Cloud Connectors Identity Connectors Email Connectors Ticketing Connectors SOAR Integrations Third-Party Actions Integration families should include: API webhook cloud platforms endpoint tools identity tools SIEM ticketing threat intel network tools email tools custom enterprise systems Each connector should support: add edit configure test connection sync now replay rotate secret disable delete clone logs mapping health owner

Required sections: Tenant Overview Tenant Settings Tenant Branding Tenant Users Tenant Roles Tenant Data Sources Tenant Policies Tenant Quotas Tenant Audit Logs Capabilities: multi-tenant isolation tenant branding tenant-specific rules tenant-specific integrations tenant policies tenant user scopes tenant quotas

Required sections: Users Roles and RBAC Teams Groups Notifications Tags and Labels Approvals Secrets Management Certificates Data Retention Backup and Restore Audit Logs Capabilities: user lifecycle RBAC approvals secret rotation certificate tracking retention management backup/restore audit logging notification routing group and team organization

Required sections: Cluster Health Services Node Status Queue Health Index Health Storage Health Upgrade Center License Diagnostics Maintenance Mode Capabilities: system health service status queue monitoring license status upgrade workflow diagnostics maintenance control

Required sections: General Settings UI Preferences Time Zone and Locale Severity Colors Default Views Notification Preferences API Preferences Branding Sidebar Preferences AINA settings must also support: provider API key allowed models default model capability toggles test connection usage status latency model health

ZelC Query should be a premium editor-terminal experience: left Monaco-style editor right live terminal simulation templates sample file loading saved scripts execution history realistic simulated output different output each run component targeting safe sandbox behavior ZelC templates for operations workflows

Threat Graph under Command Center should be a large animated map experience: vector map animated routes origin/destination pulses heat zones wallboard mode live feed campaign highlights region focus SOC center visual design

Zelfire page should provide: product family boxes clickable product cards API config webhook config auth routes mapping logs audit test event secret rotation product-to-product routing

Across ZelXDR: premium dark high contrast but elegant warm action buttons glass-like panels where suitable motion used subtly dense but readable strong hierarchy distinct visual identity per page no repetitive generic layouts each page should feel purpose-built

Every page should help users move from: signal to context context to decision decision to action action to documentation documentation to learning learning to platform improvement

ZelXDR must include: RBAC approvals audit trails change history AI audit log report access control customer-safe reporting controls secret and cert visibility retention controls backup and restore role-aware page visibility

The platform must maintain relationships between: alerts incidents investigations cases entities IOCs assets endpoints vulnerabilities anomalies hunts events detections rules reports notes playbooks integrations users This relationship fabric is one of ZelXDR’s biggest strengths.

AINA must never feel like a toy. It must behave like an operational security intelligence layer. It should always provide: summary reasoning confidence uncertainty next steps action options executive communication support analyst communication support

Every major platform domain should be reportable. Reports must support: operational audience executive audience customer-safe audience internal governance audience compliance audience

ZelXDR should feel: premium serious operational AI-assisted investigation-ready boardroom-ready SOC-ready engineer-friendly hunt-friendly beautiful enough for display useful enough for daily operations

The platform must not look like a generic admin panel. Every core page should feel like a premium specialized command surface. Pages must be visually distinct from one another. Top status sections must not be repetitive clones. The system should feel designed, not assembled.

ZelXDR is a platform where: signals become context context becomes decisions decisions become response response becomes intelligence intelligence becomes reporting reporting becomes trust