incident alert

nounverified·updated Oct 7, 2026

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Any form of security alert, security alarm, or logged event notification that has been triggered by any form of detection. The triggering of an incident alert begins the incident response process.

MWENIST Cybersecurity Framework

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Event100%manual reviewI-079.event_restored

Ddorianclast reviewed —

Event is a type again; Triggering Event is an Event that obliges a response (Dorian, 2026-10-07; cki DESIGN.md I-079)

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: notification from detection system
plural: incident alerts
possessive: incident alert's
pluralpossessive: incident alerts'

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