From alert to forensic insight, automatically, with the Magnet Nexus API

Key takeaways

• The Magnet Nexus API enables automated forensic collections based on SOC alerts and predefined triggers, helping teams preserve volatile data before it disappears.
• By automating collections, case creation, and other repetitive tasks, DFIR teams can spend less time managing workflows and more time analyzing evidence.
• The Nexus API connects Nexus with SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, ticketing, messaging, and other tools, creating a unified workflow from alert to forensic insight.

Here’s a scenario that may be familiar to many SOCs:

An alert escalates at 11:00PM on Friday. There is lateral movement on a finance workstation and it’s enough signal that your SOC tier 1 analyst flags it, but not quite enough to page the DFIR team.

The on-call analyst does what the runbook says: documents it, escalates the alert, moves on.