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Turn an emergency response policy on or off

Emergency response acts on a single issue, without waiting for the case, when a policy matches: what the issue is about, which source or rule it came from, and the assessment's verdict and confidence. The shipped policies are identity_compromise, endpoint_execution and email_delivered; each is on or off per tenant, and every action they run is still gated by shadow for the issue_emergency actor.

Steps

  1. List the policies and their state:

    !SOCFWConfig command=emergency
    
  2. Turn one off, or back on:

    !SOCFWConfig command=emergency policy=email_delivered enabled=off apply=yes
    
  3. Protect what must never be contained, for every policy:

    !SOCFWConfig command=emergency protect=host:dc-*,cidr:10.0.0.0/8 apply=yes
    

Expected: the listing shows the policy's enabled state and the protect list. A policy that matched but was blocked by protection escalates the case to the configured severity instead of acting.

Why it works this way

Policies decide whether to act; shadow decides whether the vendor is called. Turning a policy off stops the decision; leaving it on with issue_emergency in shadow shows every decision in the War Room and the dataset without touching the estate.

Related: Take an action live, or put it back in shadow ยท See what runs for real on this tenant