Prompt engineering: Generate vulnerability advisories at scale

Overview

Staying ahead of emerging threats requires timely and relevant intelligence and building intelligence advisories tends to be a time consuming process. Feedly’s AI Overview in Automated Newsletters enables vulnerability managers to generate customized vulnerability advisories effortlessly.

By leveraging AI Overview in Automated Newsletters, you can aggregate insights from multiple articles, ensuring your team receives concise, actionable reports on critical vulnerabilities. (Keep reading to get the full prompt).

The challenge

Vulnerability managers and cybersecurity teams need to track, analyze, and report on vulnerabilities as they emerge. However, aggregating and summarizing key details from multiple threat intelligence sources is time-consuming. Manual reporting often leads to delays, inconsistencies, and information gaps that hinder swift decision-making.

The solution

With AI Overview in Automated Newsletters, you can automate the process of generating vulnerability advisories. Feedly AI aggregates intelligence from articles saved to your Team Boards, providing a custom-structured report based on the prompt and guidelines you provide.

Why it matters

Saves Time – Automates intelligence gathering and report generation.
Reduces Noise – Focuses on the most relevant details, eliminating unnecessary information.
Improves Decision-Making – Ensures your team receives accurate, timely, and actionable intelligence.

How it works

Save Relevant Articles – As new vulnerabilities are reported, save them to your Team Board in Feedly.

Run the AI Prompt – Use AI Overview in Automated Newsletters to analyze the articles and generate a vulnerability advisory.

Distribute Intelligence – Share the AI-generated report with your security teams via automated newsletters at a regular cadence or ad hoc.

Example use case: responding to a critical CVE

Imagine a zero-day vulnerability affecting a widely used application. Security teams must rapidly understand the risk and respond effectively. Instead of manually gathering fragmented information, a Vulnerability Manager can:

Save reports and security bulletins on the CVE to Team Board.
Run the AI Overview prompt to generate a structured Vulnerability Advisory.
Instantly distribute the advisory to security engineers, system administrators, and executive stakeholders.

AI Overview in Newsletters prompt

Just copy and paste this into your Automated Newsletter editor!

`Generate a Vulnerability Advisory based on the article provided. The report should include the following sections:`

`Vulnerability Advisory: [CVE ID]([https://feedly.com/i/cve/[CVE] ID])`

1. **`Executive Summary`**
    `Provide a high-level overview of the vulnerability, its impact, and any known exploitation activity.`
    
2. **`Vulnerability Details`**
    - `CVE ID & Identifiers: List the CVE ID and any relevant identifiers.`
    - `Affected Products: Specify impacted software, hardware, and versions (if mentioned).`
    - `Vulnerability Type: Describe the type (e.g., buffer overflow, SQL injection) (if mentioned).`
    - `Disclosure Information: Include the disclosure date and credit (if available).`

3. **`Description`**
    - `Summarize the root cause of the vulnerability, how it can be exploited, and the potential consequences.`

4. **`Severity & Impact`**
    - `Provide the CVSS score and severity rating (if available).`
    - `Explain potential impacts such as unauthorized access, data loss, or system compromise.`
  
5. **`Exploitation & Proof-of-Concept (PoC)`**
    - `Detail any known exploitation activity (if mentioned).`
    - `Include proof-of-concept (PoC) code or attack scenarios (if available).`
    
6. **`Mitigation & Remediation`**
    - `Outline vendor patches, updates, or mitigations.`
    - `List any temporary workarounds if a patch is not yet available.`
    
7. **`Recommendations`**
    - `Provide actionable steps for organizations to assess exposure, prioritize patching, and mitigate risks.`

How to add your AI Overview prompt

Go to your newsletter template editor.
Drag the AI Overview block into your newsletter.
Customize your prompt (or paste the one in this blog).
Pick your Folder or AI Feed to which the AI Overview applies (could also apply to all articles in the newsletter).
Preview or Save.

To learn more about AI in Automated Newsletters, check out this blog: AI in Threat Intelligence Newsletters: Faster creation, bigger impact

AI Overview in Newsletters Result

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AI Overview in Automated Newsletters helps teams create vulnerability briefs automatically from the content curated in their Feeds and Boards keeping stakeholders up-to-date on the latest vulnerability intelligence.

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