What is incident classification?
Category:
technology and computing
it and internet support
Thus, Incident classification exists primarily to classify incidents in order to provide initial support. Initial support means proper analysis, evaluation and if required, routing. Classification is neither to determine root cause nor technical causes of the incident.
Keeping this in view, how many types of incidents are there?
Six distinct incident categories All possible work-related incidents can be divided into six different categories depending on their status. On the top are the rarest incidents and on the bottom the most numerous ones.
- Service Strategy.
- Service Design.
- Service Transition.
- Service Operation.
- Continual Service Improvement.
Simply so, how do you classify security incidents?
Mitigate the risk of the 10 common security incident types
- Unauthorized attempts to access systems or data.
- Privilege escalation attack.
- Insider threat.
- Phishing attack.
- Malware attack.
- Denial-of-service (DoS) attack.
- Man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack.
- Password attack.
Many organizations uses Category/Type/Item (CTI) for incident classification in their IT service desks. CTI is a three-tiered approach of defining "Category," a "Type" associated with the "Category," and an "Item" associated with the "Type".