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incident alert

nounid 2800·updated May 9, 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.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Event92%rule-basedr:entity.event.incident.v1

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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

Framework definitions

NIST Cybersecurity Framework1 senseview framework →
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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.

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