# Summarize a cyber threat report into insights and actions

Distills a threat intelligence report into its key findings, attacker techniques, indicators, and the actions your security team should take.

- Topic: Software Development
- Framework: Few-Shot
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Summarize, Analyze, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/summarize-a-cyber-threat-report-into-insights-and-actions

## Prompt

```text
Summarize this cybersecurity threat report for my team and turn it into actions.

**Report:** [PASTE the threat report, advisory, or blog post]
**Our environment:** [e.g. "Microsoft 365, AWS, Windows endpoints with EDR, 400 users", or "general"]
**Audience for the summary:** [security analysts / IT team / executives]

Give me:
1. One-sentence summary of what the report reveals, under 25 words.
2. Key findings: the 5-10 most important or surprising points, each in one or two sentences.
3. Threat actor and campaign: who is behind it (as attributed in the report, with the report's confidence level), targets, motivation, and timeline.
4. Attack chain: initial access through impact, with each step mapped to MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques where the report supports it.
5. Indicators of compromise in a table: Type | Value | Context. Copy indicators exactly as written in the report, keep them defanged (e.g. hxxp, [.]), and don't add any that aren't in the report.
6. Relevance to us: which findings apply to my environment and why, or "not enough information".
7. Recommended actions, split into: check now (hunting queries to run, logs to review), fix this month (patches, configuration changes), and longer term (controls and detections).
8. A 3-sentence plain-language version for executives.

Stick to what the report says. Separate the report's facts from your interpretation, and mark anything you're unsure of [VERIFY]. Note the report date, since threat details age quickly.
```

## What to fill in

- PASTE the threat report, advisory, or blog post
- security analysts / IT team / executives

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