Automated Security Advisory Monitoring for Palo Alto Networks
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Streamline your security operations with this n8n workflow that automatically fetches Palo Alto Networks security advisories, filters for relevant product alerts, and automates incident creation in Jira and customer notifications via Gmail. Stay proactive against emerging threats and ensure timely communication with stakeholders.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow is engineered for modern SecOps teams to automate the critical task of monitoring security advisories. It connects directly to the Palo Alto Networks RSS feed, pulling the latest vulnerability information. Intelligent parsing extracts key details like advisory type, subject, and severity. Crucially, it filters advisories, ensuring only those relevant to your specific Palo Alto products (like GlobalProtect) are processed, preventing alert fatigue. New advisories (posted in the last 24 hours) trigger the creation of detailed Jira issues for incident tracking and dispatch personalized email notifications to affected customers, all on a customizable schedule, typically running daily. This enhances your security posture and response efficiency.
Key Features
- Automated RSS Feed Monitoring: Continuously monitors the Palo Alto Networks security advisory RSS feed for new threats.
- Intelligent Information Extraction: Automatically parses advisory titles to extract critical details like product type, subject, and severity.
- Configurable Product Filtering: Filters advisories to focus only on specific Palo Alto products relevant to your infrastructure, such as GlobalProtect or Traps.
- Jira Integration for Incident Management: Automatically creates detailed Jira issues, populating them with advisory summaries, severity, links, and publication dates.
- Personalized Customer Notifications: Fetches customer data and sends tailored email alerts via Gmail to inform affected parties about new advisories.
- Duplicate Prevention: Includes a check to only process advisories published within the last 24 hours, avoiding redundant alerts.
How To Use
- Set up Workflow Schedule: While initially set for manual trigger, navigate to the workflow settings to schedule it to run automatically, for example, daily at 1 AM as suggested in the workflow notes.
- Get Palo Alto security advisories: The RSS feed URL is pre-configured. If Palo Alto's feed changes or you need to monitor a different RSS feed, update the
URLparameter in this node. - Extract info: This node uses regular expressions to parse information from the advisory titles. Verify or adjust the regex if the format of Palo Alto's advisory titles changes.
- Check if posted in last 24 hours: Ensure this
Ifnode's condition (value2) aligns with your workflow's execution frequency to prevent processing old advisories. - Configure Product Filters: Modify or add new
Filternodes (e.g.,GlobalProtect advisory?,Traps advisory?) to match the product names relevant to your organization. The current setup only branches for GlobalProtect. - Create Jira issue: Connect your Jira credentials, then select the appropriate
ProjectandIssue Type. Customize theSummaryandDescriptionfields to fit your incident reporting standards. - Get customers: Replace the sample
n8nTrainingCustomerDatastorenode with your actual customer database, CRM, or a static list to fetch relevant contacts for notifications. - Email customers: Configure your Gmail credentials. Customize the
SubjectandMessagecontent to reflect your desired communication style and include all necessary advisory details. Ensure thesendToexpression correctly maps to your customer data.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "94282775-f0d4-4205-9ffa-bcb5c56e23bd",
"name": "Automated Security Advisory Monitoring for Palo Alto Networks",
"nodes": 5,
"category": "DevOps",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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