Incident response · The post-incident review · Element

The cause

What allowed the incident to happen.

The part

What it is

Usually a chain rather than a single point, and the useful entries are the ones the organisation can change.

Where a control existed and did not prevent the incident, that is a control design finding rather than an operational one.

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.