Standard operating procedure · IT7B · Information Technology
Phishing Campaign Response
Transactional procedure owned by Cybersecurity Operations in Information Technology. 6 numbered steps, 0 of them a person deciding and 6 of them agent work … more
Procedure code
IT7B
Transactional
Rule versions in force
v4.6 · v3.7
2 governing rules stacked over it
In force since
2024-11-10
Earliest effective date across those rules
Last reviewed
2026-05-19
Latest review date across those rules
Rules approved by
1
Director, Security Operations
Rule health
2/2
0 under review · 0 superseded
There is no document register behind this header. The version, the dates and the approver names are read off the governing rules this procedure runs inside, which is the closest thing the estate holds to a document control record. Nobody wrote these procedures. There is no document library behind this page and no Word file anywhere in the estate. Every procedure below is generated from rows this platform already holds: the line and its ordered stations, the owning team and the person accountable for it, the policy items bound to that team, and the governance gates seeded against the function. The steps, the owners, the gates, the approvers, the dwell times and the volumes are read straight off those rows. The sentences that join them together are generated. Read a procedure as the estate describing itself, not as a document somebody signed.
Purpose and scope
What this procedure is for and where it stops
To run phishing campaign response to one repeatable standard inside Cybersecurity Operations, part of Information Technology. more
Entry condition
Runs transactional. Starts when a scheduled window opens.
Exit condition
The unit clears report. more
In scope
- Every unit of phishing campaign response raised inside Cybersecurity Operations, from the trigger below through to the final step.
- 6 of the 6 steps, which run without a person present.
- No decision on this line stops for a person; it runs end to end without one.
Out of scope
- Anything outside the envelope set by the owning team. With no gate on this line, an out-of-envelope unit is refused rather than held.
- Work that belongs to another function. This line records no handoff, so nothing leaves it mid-flow.
- The 6 steps carried on the shared AI GBS spine. They are done for this line but not by this function.
Who owns it
Runs the line
Security Operations Orchestrator
Accountable person
Director, Security Operations
The end of the escalation path. Above them sits IT Chief of Staff for the function.
That team’s remit
Owns alert work end to end inside Information Technology. more
That remit describes the whole team, not this one procedure, so its counts are larger than the ones on this page.
Autonomy
80% now · ceiling 85%
Triage, enrichment and in-policy containment run in seconds because speed is the control. more
The procedure, step by step
6 numbered steps · 0 of them stop for a person
A step is one station on the line. more
| No. | Step | Who does it | What happens | System of record | Time on the step | In flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Detect GBSgbs | Alert Triage Agent | Alert Triage Agent performs this step unattended on the shared AI GBS transaction spine, outside the function, inside the envelope its owning team has set, and writes an evidence record naming the actor, the authority it acted under and the digests of what it read and wrote. | IT Service Management | 18 minstandard 37 min | 28 |
| 02 | Quarantine GBSgbs | Alert Triage Agent | Alert Triage Agent performs this step unattended on the shared AI GBS transaction spine, outside the function, inside the envelope its owning team has set, and writes an evidence record naming the actor, the authority it acted under and the digests of what it read and wrote. | IT Service Management | 1.6 hrsstandard 2.9 hrs | 7 |
| 03 | Purge mailboxes GBSgbs | Alert Triage Agent | Alert Triage Agent performs this step unattended on the shared AI GBS transaction spine, outside the function, inside the envelope its owning team has set, and writes an evidence record naming the actor, the authority it acted under and the digests of what it read and wrote. | IT Service Management | 1.2 hrsstandard 2.6 hrs | 9 |
| 04 | Notify users GBSgbs | Alert Triage Agent | Alert Triage Agent performs this step unattended on the shared AI GBS transaction spine, outside the function, inside the envelope its owning team has set, and writes an evidence record naming the actor, the authority it acted under and the digests of what it read and wrote. | IT Service Management | 42 minstandard 53 min | 21 |
| 05 | Block indicators GBSgbs | Alert Triage Agent | Alert Triage Agent performs this step unattended on the shared AI GBS transaction spine, outside the function, inside the envelope its owning team has set, and writes an evidence record naming the actor, the authority it acted under and the digests of what it read and wrote. | IT Service Management | 36 minstandard 52 min | 44 |
| 06 | Report GBSgbs | Alert Triage Agent | Alert Triage Agent performs this step unattended on the shared AI GBS transaction spine, outside the function, inside the envelope its owning team has set, and writes an evidence record naming the actor, the authority it acted under and the digests of what it read and wrote. | IT Service Management | 30 minstandard 1.0 hrs | 24 |
The swimlane
The same steps, laid out by who is holding the work
Three lanes: a person deciding, an agent working, and the shared services spine. more
Run the procedure
One unit walked along that swimlane on the happy viable agentified path
Press run and a single unit enters at station 01. Each station takes exactly the dwell this platform records for it and is held by whoever the estate says holds it. more
Nothing has happened yet. more
- The lanes are the recorded lanes. 0 of the 6 stations stop for a person and every one of them still does on this run.
- There is no decision point on this procedure, so nothing was waived to make the run clean.
- The owning team is held to a 85% autonomy ceiling and this run sits at 100% unattended, inside it.
- 1 system is attributed across the stations, and 0 of them are connected. Nothing in this run has been watched executing against a real system of record.
This procedure stops for nobody. more
This is a run, not a forecast. more
Happy means nothing goes wrong: no station raises an exception, no gate sends the unit back, no rework loop fires and nothing sits in a queue between stations. more
The second clock is the allowance. more
A decision may be handed to the agent lane only if two things hold … more
The run reads the station rows only. more
What this run does not model: arrival patterns, contention between procedures for the same person, shift patterns, weekends, learning curves, and the cost of anything. more
Run it again, going wrong
The same unit, the same stations, broken the way the estate already records breaking
This is the same unit on the same stations, breaking. more
No break below was chosen. more
One play head, two tracks, the same scale. The clean run stops when it runs out of stations; the other one keeps going.
As written
6 stations, nothing waiting, nothing sent back
0 min of 4.9 hrs
now Detect · Alert Triage Agent · 18 min
As the ledger has it
the same stations, plus 2 categories the estate already counts
0 min of 9.4 hrs
now Detect · Alert Triage Agent · 18 min
What breaks, and where it is counted
No break below was chosen. more
What the two runs say together
2 counted categories land on this procedure. more
What this run cannot claim
These breaks are shown together on one unit so the shape of a bad day fits on one screen. more
Two clocks run. Worked time is the sum of the time the work is actually being done … more
Roles and responsibilities
3 named parties
The responsibility grid is assigned by a rule, not lifted from a chart. more
| Party | RACI | Steps | Duty | Escalates to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Security Operations Orchestrator orchestrator | Runs the line | 0 | Sequences this line, holds its timetable and decides what has to surface to a person. more | Raises to Director, Security Operations when a unit falls outside the envelope or confidence drops below the floor. |
Alert Triage Agent agent A3% autonomy · ceiling A3% 91% clean · 1% overridden | Responsible | 6 | Runs the repeatable portion of cybersecurity operations inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls. | Escalates to Director, Security Operations when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor. |
Director, Security Operations person | Accountable | 0 | Accountable for this procedure and for the envelope the agents run inside. more | The end of the escalation path for this line. |
Decision points and escalation
0 places this procedure stops
This procedure has no decision point. more
Handoffs out of this procedure
Nothing leaves this procedure for another function. It completes inside Cybersecurity Operations.
The rules this procedure runs inside
2 governing rules
Cybersecurity Operations Decision Envelope
activeIT7-POL-200 · envelope · vv4.6
Agents in this lane may act without a human when the alert sits inside the stated value, risk and confidence envelope. more
Approved by Director, Security Operations · in force 2024-11-10 · reviewed 2026-05-14
Binds Alert Triage Agent, Threat Intelligence Agent, Containment Agent, Forensics Support Agent, Phishing Response Agent, Vulnerability Agent
LATAM · US
Cybersecurity Operations Evidence Standard
activeIT7-POL-201 · evidence · vv3.7
Every autonomous decision writes inputs, the rule version applied, the model and prompt version, the output and a reversal path. more
Approved by Director, Security Operations · in force 2025-08-21 · reviewed 2026-05-19
Binds Alert Triage Agent, Threat Intelligence Agent, Containment Agent, Forensics Support Agent, Phishing Response Agent, Vulnerability Agent
US · Canada
Systems this procedure touches
1 named · 0 connected
System attribution is a rule, not a reading. more
| System | Vendor | Domain | Criticality | Steps | Connection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Service Management | ServiceNow ITSM | itsm | high | 6 | modeled |
0 of the 1 systems on this procedure is connected to the platform, and none of the twenty-six in the estate register is. 1 of them are marked as taking a write back, which is a property of the system, not a live path from here.
How it performs
End to end
4.9 hrs
Summed from the time each step sits, standard 9.0 hrs — running at 55% of the standard.
Touchless
87%
Agent share
100%
A week
4,964
In flight
133
Effort a week
0 human minutes · 296 agent minutes
Volume multiplied by the time on each step. more
Assurance over this procedure
4 governance gates sit above it
The twenty-four controls and eighteen exception classes in this platform are held at estate level … more
| Gate | What trips it | Who releases it | Clock | Waivable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Privileged access grant approval | Any administrative, root or elevated entitlement | Identity governance and system owner | 4 business hours | No |
Firewall or network boundary change approval | Any rule affecting segmentation, ingress or egress | Network security lead | 1 business day | No |
Production database or destructive action approval | Any data-affecting operation in production, including bulk deletion | Data owner and CIO delegate | 1 business day | No |
Major incident command escalation | Any severity-one incident or suspected compromise | Incident commander | 15 minutes | No |
Next to it on the same team
Cybersecurity Operations
What this document is and is not
These procedures describe the modeled estate. more
Actions
What is waiting on a person
What one procedure document gives you, and what to check before you treat it as the standard.
named approvers appear across the library
Every decision point on every procedure carries a job title, not a queue. more
steps in the library hand their unit to another function
A handoff is where a procedure stops being one team’s problem. more
controls exist in the estate, and they belong to no procedure in particular
Controls and exception classes are held estate-wide. more
Operations
What this desk is allowed to start
A surface that only reports is not operable. more
Trigger and bound
A procedure document prints purpose, scope, entry and exit, the numbered steps with the actor on each, the roles and their RACI position, the swimlane, the decision points and escalation, the handoffs, the governing rules with version and approver, the systems by rule and the timings. more
Live observability
What the record shows right now
The whole library, by lane, so a single document can be read against the estate it came from. more
Current distribution
2,748 steps
Is policy and strategy coming to fruition
Whether the written intent is holding here
Half. The document is complete and every actor on it is measured more
Not holding on the record
A procedure here carries a version, an approver, an in-force date and a last-review date. more