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ISC2 SSCP Oct 2025 outline · Domain 4: Incident response & recovery

Events vs incidents, triage and escalation

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Not every log entry or alert is an emergency. Security teams must distinguish ordinary events from genuine incidents quickly and consistently, or they will either waste effort on noise or react too slowly to real attacks. Clear definitions, triage criteria and escalation paths make this possible.

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