Event Analysis
What is Event Analysis?
The examination of security events to determine their significance, potential impact, and whether they constitute incidents requiring response.
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What the standards actually require on event analysis
Requirements naming event analysis across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.
CSF 2.0 Category: anomalies, indicators of compromise and other potentially adverse events are analyzed to characterize the events and detect cybersecurity incidents. Priority High.
nist-sp-800-61-rev-3::DE.AE · DE.AE Adverse event analysis filtered by technology and aimed at early detection →The organization must keep making the OR management system more effective by means of its policy, its objectives, what audits find, analysis of the events it monitors, actions to correct and to prevent, and the reviews held by management.
asis-spc-1-2009-organizational-resilience-standard::4.6.5 · 4.6.5 Continual improvement through policy, objectives, audits, event analysis, actions and review →The asset owner shall analyse events to identify incidents and trends, with the analysis performed by people who understand the IACS.
iec-62443::EVENT 1.7 · Event analysis →FIRST CSIRT Services Framework v2.1 Service Area 1 - Information Security Event Management (ISEM). SCOPE: identification + analysis of security-relevant events (potential threats not yet escalated to incidents).
FIRST-CSIRTF-SA1-ISEM · Service Area 1 - Information Security Event Management (Monitoring, Detection, Triage) →Questions people ask about event analysis
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