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Nights and weekends

Alerts at night, looked into as they arrive.

Attackers do not keep office hours, and most teams cannot staff every night. armor360 takes the first look when an alert arrives at 3 a.m., tells the on-call person if it is urgent and has the investigation ready for the morning.

Overnight, looked into as it happened182022000204060808:00On-call told01:38, real attackEach with its verdict06:30 Local accounts listed05:11 Update agent beacon03:36 DNS to new domain02:18 Admin logon at 02:2001:23 Archive made by hand00:11 New cron entry08:00, the morning summary10looked into1needed someone2to check today
Illustrated example: each alert looked into as it arrives; the one that matters reaches the person on call; your people decide what to do.

Nobody is watching, the alerts keep coming.

For most teams, nights, weekends and holidays are when the queue is left alone, and attackers know it.

  • Quiet hours are long hours

    An alert that arrives on Friday evening may not be opened until Monday morning. Whatever it was pointing at has had the whole weekend to carry on unnoticed.

  • On-call means guessing

    The person on call gets a bare alert on their phone and has to decide, half awake, whether it is worth getting up for. Too often the safe choice is to get up anyway.

  • Mornings start buried

    The first hours of Monday go on working through everything that arrived over the weekend, oldest first, while new alerts keep landing on top of the pile.

  • Round-the-clock staffing is costly

    Covering every night with analysts means shifts, rotas and people working unsociable hours. For many organisations the cost is hard to justify, and the gap stays open.

A night, looked into as it happened.

Each alert is investigated when it arrives, and the one that matters reaches the person on call.

One night, looked into as it happenedIllustrated example
19:24Harmless
21:06Authorised
23:36Suspicious
02:14Real attack On call told
03:31Harmless
05:02Harmless
06:47Suspicious
08:00: seven investigations finished, one real attack already with the on-call person.
Each alert is investigated when it arrives. The real attack at 02:14 reaches the person on call; the rest wait for the morning with their verdicts written.

The first look happens anyway

New alerts are collected as they arrive, whatever the hour. The agent investigates each one the same way it does during the day: it asks questions, searches your data, keeps every record it uses and reaches a verdict with how sure it is. Nobody needs to be awake for that to happen.

Urgent findings reach the on-call person

When the agent finds something that needs a person now, it tells the person you named during set-up, through Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty or email. They get the verdict, the reason and what is at risk in business terms, not a bare alert, so they can decide quickly whether to act.

  • The verdict and how sure the agent is
  • The machine, the account and the business process at risk
  • The recommended next steps

It tells a person, it does not act

armor360 does not change your machines, accounts or network, at night or at any other time. It detects, investigates and recommends. Any step in a plan waits for a person to approve it, so nothing happens on your systems while everyone is asleep.

Overnight alerts, joined into one story

Alerts that name the same machine, account or address within about two hours are joined into a chain and a campaign, in the order they happened. If an attack unfolded overnight, the morning team sees it as one attack with its stages, rather than a scattered pile of alerts to piece together.

The morning starts from finished work

The Today page opens on what is waiting for a person, real attacks first. Each alert that arrived overnight already has its verdict and evidence. Your team starts the day by reviewing conclusions and deciding what to do, instead of opening alerts one by one from the oldest.

How a night alert is handled.

  1. 1

    An alert at night

    A rule fires at three in the morning. armor360 collects the alert as it arrives and starts the same investigation it would run in the middle of the day.

  2. 2

    The investigation runs

    The agent searches your data, keeps each record it reads and reaches a verdict with how sure it is. Nobody needs to be awake for this part.

  3. 3

    The right person is told

    If the finding is urgent, the on-call person you named gets the verdict, the reason, what is at risk and the next steps, by Slack, Teams, PagerDuty or email.

  4. 4

    The morning picks it up

    Routine findings wait in the queue with their reasoning. The morning team starts from finished investigations, with overnight alerts from one attack already joined into a campaign.

What covers the quiet hours.

  • Any-hour investigation

    Alerts are investigated as they arrive, at night and at weekends as in the day.

  • On-call alerts

    Urgent findings go to the person you named, through Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty or email.

  • Business context

    Each finding says which business process and important systems are at risk, from what you told armor360 at set-up.

  • Recommendations ready

    Next steps are written out, so the person on call can decide without starting cold.

  • Tickets waiting

    Findings can open a ticket in Jira or ServiceNow, ready for the team in the morning.

  • People approve

    Nothing changes on your systems until a person approves it, with the approval on record.

Out of hours, by hand and with armor360.

TopicBy hand todayWith armor360
The first lookAn alert raised on Friday evening may wait unopened until someone is back on Monday morning. Each alert is investigated as it arrives, at night and at weekends, in the same way as during the day.
The on-call decisionThe on-call person gets a bare alert on their phone and has to guess whether it is worth getting up for. Urgent findings reach them with the verdict, the evidence, what is at risk and the recommended next steps.
Overnight piecesAlerts from one attack spread over the night look like a scattered pile by the time anyone reads them. Alerts naming the same machine, account or address within about two hours are joined into one campaign.
Monday morningThe first hours go on working through the weekend’s alerts, oldest first, while new ones keep arriving. The Today page opens on what needs a person, real attacks first, each already given a verdict.
Who actsSome automated tools act by themselves overnight, which can disrupt systems with nobody there to judge. armor360 takes no action on your systems, and any plan step waits for a person to approve it.

Frequently asked questions

Will it wake us up for everything?

No. Routine alerts the agent judges harmless wait in the queue with their reasoning for the morning. The person you named for urgent findings is told when the agent finds something that needs attention now, such as a real attack on an important system.

Because the message carries the verdict, the evidence and what is at risk, the on-call person can judge quickly whether to get up, rather than guessing from a bare alert.

Does armor360 act on its own at night?

No. It does not change machines, accounts or network settings at any hour. It investigates, recommends and tells a person. If an attack needs a plan, each step waits for someone to approve it, and the approval is kept in the audit trail.

What it does do is make sure the right person knows, with enough evidence in front of them to decide quickly whether to act.

What happens to alerts it is unsure about?

They are marked suspicious or unsure, with the evidence the agent gathered and what it could not settle. They wait at the top of the queue for a person to review, so the morning team starts with the questions still open.

An unsure verdict is an honest answer when the evidence is thin. It is shown as one, rather than dressed up as a confident call either way.

Is this a substitute for an overnight security service?

It gives you the first look at each alert out of hours and tells your on-call person about urgent findings. It does not act on your systems, so someone still needs to be reachable to decide and act when a real attack is found.

How is it set up?

You connect your security tools, then tell armor360 about your important machines, the business processes they serve and who to call for urgent findings. You choose the channels: Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, email, or a ticket in Jira or ServiceNow. The business context is worth care, because it is what lets a message at night say what is at risk in your terms. Pricing is by quote, with no charge per person.

See where your team’s time goes. Then decide.

Start a free pilot on your own alerts, or put in your own numbers first.