Incident Triage

Definitions

1. Incident Triage is the initial assessment and prioritization of alerts or events to decide what requires deeper investigation. Security teams use it to enforce trust, reduce exposure, improve detection, or standardize secure operations in production environments. Its value depends on correct configuration, lifecycle management, and surrounding controls, because weak defaults, poor integration, or missing visibility can create gaps that attackers exploit.

   In plain English: Incident Triage is a security concept or control that helps organizations protect systems, manage trust, and notice suspicious behavior before damage spreads.

   Example: "After the review, the security team rolled out Incident Triage in the affected environment, documented the operating procedure, and verified through logs and test cases that the control reduced exposure without breaking normal administrative or user workflows."

Related Terms

• Computer Emergency Response Team
• Cryptanalysis
• Cyber Attribution
• Cyber Resilience
• Cyber Threat Intelligence
• Dwell Time
• Entropy Analysis
• Escape Analysis
• Binary Diffing
• Managed Security
• Managed Security Service
• Memory Analysis