Incident Classification
What is Incident Classification?
The process of categorizing security incidents by type, severity, and impact to ensure appropriate response procedures and resource allocation.
Terms that appear alongside incident classification
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as incident classification. The number is how many controls name both.
- incident response 6 shared controls
- cybersecurity 6 shared controls
- lessons learned 6 shared controls
- nist 5 shared controls
- disruption 5 shared controls
- incident response team 5 shared controls
- security incident 5 shared controls
- computer security incident 5 shared controls
Frameworks that govern incident classification
What the standards actually require on incident classification
Requirements naming incident classification across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.
Cybersecurity incidents are classified. The classification scheme is aligned with the entity's risk classification and recorded in each incident report.
saudi-nca-ecc::2-13-3-2 · 2-13-3-2 Incident classification →The incidents that concern IRBC sit at the highest level of the organization's incident classification: judged very unlikely, but with a significant or catastrophic effect on ICT services if they happen.
iso-iec-27031-2025::6.5 · Incident management and relationship to IRBC →Kuwait NCF Respond and Recover functions. Incident Response and Reporting: documented Incident Response Plan + Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) + 24/7 incident hotline + Incident classification (severity + impact + urgency) + Triage + Containme...
KNCF-Respond-Incident-Response-Reporting-Recover-Business-Continuity-Cyber-Resilience-NCSC-Notification · Kuwait NCF Respond + Incident Response + Reporting + Recover + BC + Cyber Resilience + NCSC →Under the Foundational expectations of Principle 12, managing agents tell Lloyd's and the LMA about any significant data breach or cyber incident no later than 72 hours after it occurs.
lloyd-s-minimum-standards-cyber-security::P12.R1 · Report significant cyber incidents and data breaches to Lloyd's and the LMA within 72 hours →Questions people ask about incident classification
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