Incident response · The incident definition · Element

The severity levels

How incidents are graded, and what each level triggers.

The part

What it is

Three or four levels is enough. More produces grading arguments during exactly the period when nobody has time for them.

Each level should trigger something specific, or the grading is decorative.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.