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Cybersecurity UX for AI/ML Products: RBAC, Auditability, Zero‑Trust, and Release Gates

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Cybersecurity UX (SIEM • SOAR • IAM)

Design SIEM triage, SOAR playbooks, and IAM/RBAC that reduce risk, prove compliance, and scale from console to API—especially for AI/ML systems. Proven with security and reliability leaders including Robust Intelligence and Exein.

6–8 week pilot: ship-and-prove security UX

A focused pilot that delivers audit-ready patterns, HITL controls, and production-ready UX for your highest-risk flows.

Week 0–1 — Discovery and risk mapping

  • Stakeholder interviews (Security Eng, Platform/Infra, Compliance, PM/Design)

  • System + dataflow inventory; control mapping (SOC 2/ISO 27001)

  • Incident review: alert fatigue, MTTA/MTTR baseline, noisy automations

  • Target selection: 2–3 critical flows (e.g., SIEM triage, elevation/effective permissions, SOAR rollback)

Week 2 — Problem framing and guardrails

  • RBAC/IAM policy model and SoD matrix; conflict flags defined

  • Governance primitives: approvals, expirations, receipts, evidence capture by default

  • HITL criteria for SOAR/AI: risk classes, thresholds, and reviewer roles

Week 3–4 — Design sprints (HITL + governance-first)

  • SIEM: alert detail, pivots, correlation, and suppression with expiry

  • SOAR: approvals, dry-runs, rollback/killswitch, post-change receipts

  • IAM: effective-permissions, elevation requests, justification notes

  • Auditability: event schema (actor/target/before-after/reason/linkage) and evidence-pack templates

Week 5 — Prototype, user validation, and iteration

  • Interactive prototypes for 2–3 flows with content strategy for error-proofing

  • Analyst/admin usability tests; revise for speed, safety, and clarity

Week 6 — Handoff and enablement

  • Annotated Figma + component kit (badges, diffs, policy editors)

  • Telemetry/event specs and export formats; control mappings

  • Executive readout, 90-day roadmap, and MTTA/MTTR + automation coverage goals

Optional Week 7–8 — Build support and QA

  • Front-end pairing for critical surfaces; QA acceptance criteria; launch checklist

HITL and governance modules (drop-in)

  • Elevation and approvals: time-boxed scopes, approver assignment, reversible actions

  • Blast-radius preview: rate limits, dry-runs, and dependency warnings before run

  • Evidence workspace: one-click packs aligned to SOC 2/ISO 27001; checksummed exports

  • RAG/LLM gates (if applicable): eval scorecards, release thresholds, reviewer SLA, audit logs

Related casework

  • Robust Intelligence: AI risk assessment and governance (brand, product UX, engineering) → View work

  • Exein: cybersecurity rebrand and enterprise positioning (visual identity and web)

San Francisco Bay Area and global

We are headquartered in San Francisco (100 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94111) with a remote global team. Onsite workshops available across the Bay Area; remote delivery worldwide.

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SIEM, SOAR, and SOC Platform UX — Cybersecurity UX for AI/ML Products

Design SIEM alert triage, SOAR playbooks, and SOC platform controls that reduce risk, prove compliance, and scale from console to API—especially for AI/ML systems. Our work with security and reliability leaders like Robust Intelligence and Cortex informs patterns that ship fast and audit cleanly.

SIEM UX

  • Alert triage built for signal over noise: severity/risk scoring, deduping, suppression, and bulk actions with clear undo.

  • Evidence-first alert details: timeline, entities (user, host, model/dataset), related events, and control mapping (e.g., SOC 2/ISO families).

  • Fast investigation: pivot-by-entity, saved queries, inline enrichment, and forensics timeline with before/after diffs.

  • Correlation views: group alerts into incidents with ATT&CK-style technique tagging and remediation tracking.

  • Query ergonomics: guided builders and readable syntax; preview impact on datasets and retention before run.

  • Multi-tenant and environment awareness: dev/staging/prod context, scoped search, and redaction rules by role.

SOAR workflow design

  • Playbooks that mix automation and HITL: conditional branches, approvals, expirations, and rollback.

  • Step-up and containment: just-in-time elevation, scoped tokens, and kill-switches with owner assignment.

  • Reusable actions with guardrails: rate limits, blast-radius previews, dry-runs, and post-change receipts.

  • Evidence capture by default: attach logs, diffs, tickets, and attestation notes to every action.

  • Outcome dashboards: MTTA/MTTR, automation coverage, and risk burndown visible to Security and Product.

SOC platform RBAC & audit

  • Role models that enforce least privilege and separation of duties across org/site/project/model/dataset.

  • Effective-permissions views that explain why access is granted (group, policy, exception) before approve.

  • Immutable audit logs: actor, target, time, before/after, reason, request/approval linkage, exportable with checksums.

  • Evidence packs: one-click bundles aligned to SOC 2/ISO 27001 for access reviews and release decisions.

See details below in “Admin RBAC design that scales,” “Audit trails and evidence packs,” and AI safety sections for deeper patterns and deliverables.

Checklist: outcomes you can ship

  • RBAC taxonomy and SoD matrix with conflict flags

  • Effective-permissions and elevation request flows

  • Audit event schema and log coverage map

  • Evidence pack templates (SOC 2/ISO 27001)

  • Release gates for models/prompts/retrievers

  • Red-team harness UI and risk registry

  • SIEM triage/investigation screens and queries

  • SOAR playbooks, approvals, and rollback paths

  • MTTA/MTTR and automation coverage dashboards

FAQs: SIEM, SOAR, and SOC

  • What is SIEM UX? It’s the interface for detections, search, correlation, and investigations—prioritizing clarity, pivots, and evidence so analysts resolve incidents faster.

  • How does SOAR differ from SIEM? SIEM finds and contextualizes signals; SOAR executes response with automation and human-in-the-loop approvals, capturing evidence along the way.

  • How do you design SOC platform RBAC? Start with least privilege and SoD, visualize effective permissions, require approvals with expirations, and log justification notes for sensitive changes.

  • How do you reduce alert fatigue? Normalize and dedupe events, tune risk scoring, enable bulk actions with safe defaults, and provide suppression with review and expiry.

  • Can this support AI/ML surfaces? Yes—tie alerts, playbooks, and release gates to models, datasets, prompts, retrievers, and eval scorecards with full auditability.

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Cybersecurity UX

Design security-critical interfaces that prevent misuse, prove compliance, and scale from console to API.

AI Security UX

Purpose-built UX patterns for AI/ML systems: govern models, datasets, prompts, and pipelines with evaluability, least privilege, and auditable change.

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Related case studies

  • Robust Intelligence: AI risk assessment and governance (brand, product UX, engineering) → View work

  • Cortex: Service ownership and reliability controls at enterprise scale → View work

Fixed-scope package: Security UX audit (3–6 weeks)

What you get

  • Heuristic and workflow audit of current admin, policy, and incident flows

  • RBAC/SoD gap analysis; “effective permissions” and elevation review patterns

  • Auditability review: event schemas, evidence-pack coverage (SOC 2/ISO 27001) and export needs

  • Zero‑trust review: device/session posture indicators, step-up auth, session hygiene

  • AI safety add‑on (if applicable): RAG evaluation UX, release gates, HITL review inbox

  • Prioritized issues and recommendations mapped by risk and effort

  • Wireframes for 2–3 high‑impact flows and a compact component kit (badges, diffs, policy editors)

  • Executive readout and 90‑day implementation roadmap

Who’s involved

  • Interviews with Security, Platform/Infra, Compliance, and PM/Design leads (3–5 sessions)

Timeline

  • 3–6 weeks, culminating in a readout and delivery of annotated Figma files and a written report

Engagement

  • Available as a cash sprint or via Design Capital for select early‑stage security/AI startups.

Introduction

Cybersecurity UX aligns product security controls with clear, operable interfaces so admins and end users can achieve least‑privilege access, provable compliance, and safe releases—especially critical in AI/ML systems where models, data, and pipelines introduce new attack and failure modes. Zypsy applies this discipline across brand, product, and engineering, with security‑focused collaborations such as Robust Intelligence and Cortex, helping teams communicate trust and operational rigor from console to API.

What makes cybersecurity UX different

  • Dual audiences: security administrators (policy authors, auditors) and builders/operators (engineers, data scientists) sharing the same surface.

  • High‑stakes states: misconfigurations can create real risk; interfaces must prevent irreversible errors and capture intent.

  • Evidence by design: every admin action should be reviewable, exportable, and mapped to controls.

  • Explainability: policies, detections, and model risks must be human‑readable for triage and audit.

Admin RBAC design that scales

Design goals

  • Principle of least privilege by default; explicit elevation with approvals and time‑bound scopes.

  • Separation of duties (SoD) for sensitive operations (e.g., policy creation vs. enforcement, model training vs. promotion).

  • Resource‑scoped permissions (org/site/project/model/dataset) and environment awareness (dev/staging/prod).

  • Harmonize with IdPs (SSO/SAML/OIDC/SCIM) and JIT provisioning; show identity provenance in‑UI.

Core patterns

  • Permissions matrix: role × resource with bulk edit, diffs, and SoD conflict flags before save.

  • Request‑and‑approve flows: inline elevation request, approver assignment, expiration, and auto‑revert.

  • Policy previews: “effective permissions” view for any user/resource; show why a permission is granted (role, group, policy rule).

  • Audit‑first saves: require justification notes on sensitive changes; attach ticket/incident IDs.

Deliverables Zypsy typically produces

  • Role/permission taxonomy and canonical subject/resource model.

  • Wireframes and component library (badges, pills, tables, diff views) ready for design systems.

  • Error‑proofing content strategy (feedforward warnings, irreversible‑action modals, post‑change receipts).

Audit trails and evidence packs

Requirements

  • Immutable event log for admin/data/model actions with actor, time, target, before/after diff, reason, request/approval linkage.

  • Retention, redaction, and access policies documented in‑product; export with cryptographic checksums.

  • Evidence packs: one‑click bundles aligned to frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001) containing policies, control mappings, access reviews, change logs, and testing artifacts.

UX patterns

  • Forensic timeline: filter by actor/resource/control ID; pivot from timeline entries to the affected entity.

  • Evidence workspace: “build pack” wizard that assembles artifacts, shows control coverage, and tracks reviewer sign‑off.

  • Attestations: structured, templated statements with signer identity and validity window.

RAG evaluation & HITL for AI security

Design objectives

  • Govern retrieval‑augmented generation with measurable guardrails; make safety and quality visible at decision points.

  • Pair automation with human‑in‑the‑loop workflow where it matters—approvals, escalations, and overrides tied to risk.

  • Preserve decision trails that link prompts, context, model/dataset versions, eval scores, and approver rationale to controls.

Core patterns

  • RAG evaluation UX: scenario libraries, eval runs (offline/online), red‑team corpora, and scorecards by risk class (safety, privacy, factuality, toxicity, jailbreak resilience).

  • Evidence‑backed promotions: release gates that block/allow model, prompt, or retriever changes based on thresholds, coverage, and unresolved risks.

  • Context provenance: show source docs/snippets selected by the retriever, confidence, freshness, and entitlement checks; allow quick exclusion and re‑run.

  • HITL queue: role‑aware review inbox with batched edge cases, suggested actions, SLAs, and one‑click re‑test after fixes.

  • Root‑cause pivots: drill from a failed eval to the offending chunk, embedding, policy, or integration; open tickets pre‑filled with telemetry.

  • Auditability by design: immutable logs of eval configs, seeds, datasets, metrics, and sign‑offs; exportable reports mapped to SOC 2/ISO control families.

Deliverables Zypsy typically produces

  • Evaluation taxonomy and scorecards, dataset/versioning strategy, and CI/CD hooks for continuous testing.

  • Screens for HITL review, promotion workflows, and dashboards that track coverage, drift, and risk burndown.

  • Specs for telemetry, event schemas, and evidence exports aligned to your governance program.

Zero‑trust UX patterns

  • Continuous verification indicators: display device posture, session risk, and last re‑auth; prompt step‑up only when required.

  • Policy explainers: show the specific rule/predicate that allowed/blocked an action; provide “test policy” sandboxes.

  • Safe defaults: deny‑by‑default for new integrations; explicit scope grants with previewed blast radius.

  • Session hygiene: visible session manager (active sessions, tokens, scopes) with one‑click revoke.

Red‑team safeguards and release gates for AI/ML

Pre‑deployment

  • Model gating checklist: privacy, robustness, fairness, jailbreak/resistance, data provenance, PII leakage tests.

  • Shadow/canary: route a small percentage of traffic; surface comparison dashboards and rollback.

  • Kill‑switch: productized rollback with ownership and comms templates.

Continuous testing

  • Adversarial test harnesses embedded in CI/CD; red‑team playbooks with curated prompt/attack corpora.

  • Risk registry: track model issues with severity/SLA and mitigation status, visible at promotion time.

Related work

  • Robust Intelligence: automated AI risk assessment and pre‑deployment stress testing; Zypsy supported brand, product UX, and engineering through acquisition and integration into Cisco’s ecosystem.

  • Cortex: service catalog and scorecards that drive reliability at scale; Zypsy repositioned Cortex for enterprise with an information architecture that clarifies ownership, quality, and controls for complex microservice estates.

Service definition: Cybersecurity UX for AI/ML

Scope Zypsy delivers

  • RBAC and policy UX: role models, SoD rules, elevation flows, effective‑permissions views.

  • Auditability: end‑to‑end event schemas, diff visualizations, evidence‑pack builders, export formats.

  • Zero‑trust surfaces: device/session posture UI, step‑up and recovery journeys, session managers.

  • Release safety: gated promotions, risk registries, red‑team harness UIs, kill‑switch operations.

  • Design system components: status and risk badges, policy editors, log viewers, approval widgets.

  • Engineering handoff: annotated specs, API/telemetry contracts, and QA acceptance criteria.

Engagement options

  • Sprints for new surfaces or redesigns, integrated with your security, platform, and compliance teams. See Capabilities.

  • Equity‑for‑design available for select early‑stage security/AI startups via Design Capital. See Zypsy Capital and Design Capital announcement.

Typical artifacts and owners

Artifact Primary owner Reviewers Outcome
RBAC taxonomy + matrix Product/Platform Security, Compliance Approved role model with SoD rules
Audit event schema Security Engineering Data, Legal Log coverage map and retention policy
Evidence pack templates Compliance Security, Eng One‑click exports mapped to controls
Release gate checklist MLE/Platform Security, Product Promotion criteria with rollback plan

FAQs

  • How do you keep RBAC usable while enforcing SoD? We visualize effective permissions, flag conflicts before save, and require approvals with expirations for high‑risk scopes—reducing admin error while documenting intent.

  • Can you support SOC 2/ISO 27001 evidence needs? Yes. We design event schemas, review workflows, and exportable packs aligned to control families so audits rely on product‑native artifacts instead of ad‑hoc screenshots.

  • How do you balance security with velocity for ML teams? We embed lightweight gates (shadow/canary, kill‑switch, red‑team harnesses) and make risk visible at decision points, so promotions remain fast but accountable.

  • Do you have relevant case experience? Yes—see Robust Intelligence for AI security/product UX and Cortex for reliability and service ownership at enterprise scale.