SECOPS

Break-Glass Grant Instant Escalation and Auto-Expiry Watch

Fires the moment a break-glass or emergency admin role is granted, immediately pages on-call via PagerDuty.

CategorySecOps
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerwebhook
Steps5
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerWebhook receives break-glass grant eventHTTP webhook
  • LogicConfirm emergency tier and read grant TTL
  • ActionPage security on-call with expiry deadlinePagerDutyPagerDuty
  • ActionOpen time-boxed revocation tracking issueLinearLinear
  • OutputBroadcast active session to Slack channelSlack

What it does

It treats every break-glass or emergency privileged grant as an incident: the instant one is issued, on-call is paged and a time-boxed review ticket is opened so the elevated access never silently outlives its purpose.

When to use it

Use this for the highest-tier emergency access paths where any grant is rare and must be human-acknowledged. It fits orgs with formal break-glass procedures that require an auditable, time-bound revocation commitment.

How it works

  1. 1A webhook receives the break-glass grant event from your IdP or access broker as it happens.
  2. 2A logic step confirms the role matches the emergency tier and extracts the granted TTL.
  3. 3PagerDuty pages the security on-call rotation with the grantee, justification, and expiry deadline.
  4. 4A Linear issue is opened, due-dated to the grant's expiry, so the revocation is tracked to closure.
  5. 5A Slack channel post broadcasts the active break-glass session to the wider security team for awareness.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect HTTP webhookTrigger any URL on agent actions.
  2. 2
    Connect PagerDutyIncidents, on-call, escalations.
  3. 3
    Connect LinearIssues, projects, cycles, triage.
  4. 4
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  5. 5
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  6. 6
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  7. 7
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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