What is the meaning of Triage in Cybersec world?
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I searched Google about this term, but the definitions that I found was related to the medical world, and nothing related to IT. I think that is some kind of procedure of documenting something maybe? Note that I heard this word for the first time in the SOC (Security Operations Center) that I am currently working.
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I searched Google about this term, but the definitions that I found was related to the medical world, and nothing related to IT. I think that is some kind of procedure of documenting something maybe? Note that I heard this word for the first time in the SOC (Security Operations Center) that I am currently working.
terminology soc
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It means the same thing, just applied to tech/business issues rather than medical issues.
– Matthew Read
6 hours ago
Not related to cybersec, but the term "triage" can also be used in software development: if a user reports a bug by opening a ticket in the bug tracker, someone must check whether it can be reproduced, what team it should be assigned to, and its severity or priority (that is, how disruptive it is and how urgent it is to fix: is it critical, normal, negligible...?). Some call this process triage. For example, Google uses this term in the Chromium project.
– Fabio Turati
5 hours ago
Just to add the definition: the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties. Now replace wound with a computer word and replace patient with server/workstation.
– JPhi1618
43 mins ago
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I searched Google about this term, but the definitions that I found was related to the medical world, and nothing related to IT. I think that is some kind of procedure of documenting something maybe? Note that I heard this word for the first time in the SOC (Security Operations Center) that I am currently working.
terminology soc
edited 7 hours ago
schroeder♦
78.8k30175211
asked 9 hours ago
victor26567victor26567
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I searched Google about this term, but the definitions that I found was related to the medical world, and nothing related to IT. I think that is some kind of procedure of documenting something maybe? Note that I heard this word for the first time in the SOC (Security Operations Center) that I am currently working.
terminology soc
terminology soc
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It means the same thing, just applied to tech/business issues rather than medical issues.
– Matthew Read
6 hours ago
Not related to cybersec, but the term "triage" can also be used in software development: if a user reports a bug by opening a ticket in the bug tracker, someone must check whether it can be reproduced, what team it should be assigned to, and its severity or priority (that is, how disruptive it is and how urgent it is to fix: is it critical, normal, negligible...?). Some call this process triage. For example, Google uses this term in the Chromium project.
– Fabio Turati
5 hours ago
Just to add the definition: the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties. Now replace wound with a computer word and replace patient with server/workstation.
– JPhi1618
43 mins ago
add a comment |
It means the same thing, just applied to tech/business issues rather than medical issues.
– Matthew Read
6 hours ago
Not related to cybersec, but the term "triage" can also be used in software development: if a user reports a bug by opening a ticket in the bug tracker, someone must check whether it can be reproduced, what team it should be assigned to, and its severity or priority (that is, how disruptive it is and how urgent it is to fix: is it critical, normal, negligible...?). Some call this process triage. For example, Google uses this term in the Chromium project.
– Fabio Turati
5 hours ago
Just to add the definition: the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties. Now replace wound with a computer word and replace patient with server/workstation.
– JPhi1618
43 mins ago
It means the same thing, just applied to tech/business issues rather than medical issues.
– Matthew Read
6 hours ago
It means the same thing, just applied to tech/business issues rather than medical issues.
– Matthew Read
6 hours ago
Not related to cybersec, but the term "triage" can also be used in software development: if a user reports a bug by opening a ticket in the bug tracker, someone must check whether it can be reproduced, what team it should be assigned to, and its severity or priority (that is, how disruptive it is and how urgent it is to fix: is it critical, normal, negligible...?). Some call this process triage. For example, Google uses this term in the Chromium project.
– Fabio Turati
5 hours ago
Not related to cybersec, but the term "triage" can also be used in software development: if a user reports a bug by opening a ticket in the bug tracker, someone must check whether it can be reproduced, what team it should be assigned to, and its severity or priority (that is, how disruptive it is and how urgent it is to fix: is it critical, normal, negligible...?). Some call this process triage. For example, Google uses this term in the Chromium project.
– Fabio Turati
5 hours ago
Just to add the definition: the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties. Now replace wound with a computer word and replace patient with server/workstation.
– JPhi1618
43 mins ago
Just to add the definition: the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties. Now replace wound with a computer word and replace patient with server/workstation.
– JPhi1618
43 mins ago
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We just got reports that 4000 of our systems are infected with ransomeware.
3000 are end users, 800 are non-critical servers, 200 are critical servers.
Triage is looking at this mess and deciding which order to start restoring systems in. We can't tackle them all at once, so we have to look at some and say 'Sorry, little Inspiron that couldn't, you get to sit there and be useless for a while.'
It comes from the medical world, as you've stated. It's the same reasoning as an ER doctor looking at two patients and deciding to work on the one that they're more certain they can save. You let one go, as hard as it may be, so that the other might live. If you'd worked on the worse injured person, it's possible they both would have died.
The difference in the security world is that often it's dollars lost due to users being unable to work, rather than literal life and death. You work on the systems that you are most likely to be able to restore, and that will return the largest amount of productivity to the environment. You leave the individual laptops that only affect a single user to the side, for now.
answered 9 hours ago
AdonalsiumAdonalsium
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wow, thanks a lot. So, in brief, it is like prioritize which systems you want to restore, because there are many of them, and you cant work with all of them at the same time, right?
– victor26567
9 hours ago
Pretty much. It's just deciding what systems make the most sense to fix first, because you have limited resources.
– Adonalsium
8 hours ago
2
Poor lil' Inspiron :(
– Kyle Vassella
7 hours ago
add a comment |
In addition to @adonalsium ‘s fine answer regarding prioritization, the triage step will include the initial routing of the event to the people best suited to handle it.
A virus or ransomware attack would go to the operations team who would first isolate the computer to minimize collateral damage. A DDoS attack may go to the network team to start sinking the garbage packets. A report of suspicion may get placed in a queue for a generalist to handle later. Evidence of an intrusion may get escalated immediately to the Incident Management team.
answered 6 hours ago
John DetersJohn Deters
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We just got reports that 4000 of our systems are infected with ransomeware.
3000 are end users, 800 are non-critical servers, 200 are critical servers.
Triage is looking at this mess and deciding which order to start restoring systems in. We can't tackle them all at once, so we have to look at some and say 'Sorry, little Inspiron that couldn't, you get to sit there and be useless for a while.'
It comes from the medical world, as you've stated. It's the same reasoning as an ER doctor looking at two patients and deciding to work on the one that they're more certain they can save. You let one go, as hard as it may be, so that the other might live. If you'd worked on the worse injured person, it's possible they both would have died.
The difference in the security world is that often it's dollars lost due to users being unable to work, rather than literal life and death. You work on the systems that you are most likely to be able to restore, and that will return the largest amount of productivity to the environment. You leave the individual laptops that only affect a single user to the side, for now.
answered 9 hours ago
AdonalsiumAdonalsium
3,5211721
wow, thanks a lot. So, in brief, it is like prioritize which systems you want to restore, because there are many of them, and you cant work with all of them at the same time, right?
– victor26567
9 hours ago
Pretty much. It's just deciding what systems make the most sense to fix first, because you have limited resources.
– Adonalsium
8 hours ago
2
Poor lil' Inspiron :(
– Kyle Vassella
7 hours ago
add a comment |
We just got reports that 4000 of our systems are infected with ransomeware.
3000 are end users, 800 are non-critical servers, 200 are critical servers.
Triage is looking at this mess and deciding which order to start restoring systems in. We can't tackle them all at once, so we have to look at some and say 'Sorry, little Inspiron that couldn't, you get to sit there and be useless for a while.'
It comes from the medical world, as you've stated. It's the same reasoning as an ER doctor looking at two patients and deciding to work on the one that they're more certain they can save. You let one go, as hard as it may be, so that the other might live. If you'd worked on the worse injured person, it's possible they both would have died.
The difference in the security world is that often it's dollars lost due to users being unable to work, rather than literal life and death. You work on the systems that you are most likely to be able to restore, and that will return the largest amount of productivity to the environment. You leave the individual laptops that only affect a single user to the side, for now.
answered 9 hours ago
AdonalsiumAdonalsium
3,5211721
wow, thanks a lot. So, in brief, it is like prioritize which systems you want to restore, because there are many of them, and you cant work with all of them at the same time, right?
– victor26567
9 hours ago
Pretty much. It's just deciding what systems make the most sense to fix first, because you have limited resources.
– Adonalsium
8 hours ago
2
Poor lil' Inspiron :(
– Kyle Vassella
7 hours ago
add a comment |
We just got reports that 4000 of our systems are infected with ransomeware.
3000 are end users, 800 are non-critical servers, 200 are critical servers.
Triage is looking at this mess and deciding which order to start restoring systems in. We can't tackle them all at once, so we have to look at some and say 'Sorry, little Inspiron that couldn't, you get to sit there and be useless for a while.'
It comes from the medical world, as you've stated. It's the same reasoning as an ER doctor looking at two patients and deciding to work on the one that they're more certain they can save. You let one go, as hard as it may be, so that the other might live. If you'd worked on the worse injured person, it's possible they both would have died.
The difference in the security world is that often it's dollars lost due to users being unable to work, rather than literal life and death. You work on the systems that you are most likely to be able to restore, and that will return the largest amount of productivity to the environment. You leave the individual laptops that only affect a single user to the side, for now.
answered 9 hours ago
AdonalsiumAdonalsium
3,5211721
We just got reports that 4000 of our systems are infected with ransomeware.
3000 are end users, 800 are non-critical servers, 200 are critical servers.
Triage is looking at this mess and deciding which order to start restoring systems in. We can't tackle them all at once, so we have to look at some and say 'Sorry, little Inspiron that couldn't, you get to sit there and be useless for a while.'
It comes from the medical world, as you've stated. It's the same reasoning as an ER doctor looking at two patients and deciding to work on the one that they're more certain they can save. You let one go, as hard as it may be, so that the other might live. If you'd worked on the worse injured person, it's possible they both would have died.
The difference in the security world is that often it's dollars lost due to users being unable to work, rather than literal life and death. You work on the systems that you are most likely to be able to restore, and that will return the largest amount of productivity to the environment. You leave the individual laptops that only affect a single user to the side, for now.
answered 9 hours ago
AdonalsiumAdonalsium
3,5211721
answered 9 hours ago
AdonalsiumAdonalsium
3,5211721
answered 9 hours ago
AdonalsiumAdonalsium
3,5211721
answered 9 hours ago
AdonalsiumAdonalsium
3,5211721
3,5211721
wow, thanks a lot. So, in brief, it is like prioritize which systems you want to restore, because there are many of them, and you cant work with all of them at the same time, right?
– victor26567
9 hours ago
Pretty much. It's just deciding what systems make the most sense to fix first, because you have limited resources.
– Adonalsium
8 hours ago
2
Poor lil' Inspiron :(
– Kyle Vassella
7 hours ago
add a comment |
wow, thanks a lot. So, in brief, it is like prioritize which systems you want to restore, because there are many of them, and you cant work with all of them at the same time, right?
– victor26567
9 hours ago
Pretty much. It's just deciding what systems make the most sense to fix first, because you have limited resources.
– Adonalsium
8 hours ago
2
Poor lil' Inspiron :(
– Kyle Vassella
7 hours ago
wow, thanks a lot. So, in brief, it is like prioritize which systems you want to restore, because there are many of them, and you cant work with all of them at the same time, right?
– victor26567
9 hours ago
wow, thanks a lot. So, in brief, it is like prioritize which systems you want to restore, because there are many of them, and you cant work with all of them at the same time, right?
– victor26567
9 hours ago
Pretty much. It's just deciding what systems make the most sense to fix first, because you have limited resources.
– Adonalsium
8 hours ago
Pretty much. It's just deciding what systems make the most sense to fix first, because you have limited resources.
– Adonalsium
8 hours ago
2
2
Poor lil' Inspiron :(
– Kyle Vassella
7 hours ago
Poor lil' Inspiron :(
– Kyle Vassella
7 hours ago
add a comment |
In addition to @adonalsium ‘s fine answer regarding prioritization, the triage step will include the initial routing of the event to the people best suited to handle it.
A virus or ransomware attack would go to the operations team who would first isolate the computer to minimize collateral damage. A DDoS attack may go to the network team to start sinking the garbage packets. A report of suspicion may get placed in a queue for a generalist to handle later. Evidence of an intrusion may get escalated immediately to the Incident Management team.
answered 6 hours ago
John DetersJohn Deters
29k34392
add a comment |
In addition to @adonalsium ‘s fine answer regarding prioritization, the triage step will include the initial routing of the event to the people best suited to handle it.
A virus or ransomware attack would go to the operations team who would first isolate the computer to minimize collateral damage. A DDoS attack may go to the network team to start sinking the garbage packets. A report of suspicion may get placed in a queue for a generalist to handle later. Evidence of an intrusion may get escalated immediately to the Incident Management team.
answered 6 hours ago
John DetersJohn Deters
29k34392
add a comment |
In addition to @adonalsium ‘s fine answer regarding prioritization, the triage step will include the initial routing of the event to the people best suited to handle it.
A virus or ransomware attack would go to the operations team who would first isolate the computer to minimize collateral damage. A DDoS attack may go to the network team to start sinking the garbage packets. A report of suspicion may get placed in a queue for a generalist to handle later. Evidence of an intrusion may get escalated immediately to the Incident Management team.
answered 6 hours ago
John DetersJohn Deters
29k34392
In addition to @adonalsium ‘s fine answer regarding prioritization, the triage step will include the initial routing of the event to the people best suited to handle it.
A virus or ransomware attack would go to the operations team who would first isolate the computer to minimize collateral damage. A DDoS attack may go to the network team to start sinking the garbage packets. A report of suspicion may get placed in a queue for a generalist to handle later. Evidence of an intrusion may get escalated immediately to the Incident Management team.
answered 6 hours ago
John DetersJohn Deters
29k34392
answered 6 hours ago
John DetersJohn Deters
29k34392
answered 6 hours ago
John DetersJohn Deters
29k34392
answered 6 hours ago
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It means the same thing, just applied to tech/business issues rather than medical issues.
– Matthew Read
6 hours ago
Not related to cybersec, but the term "triage" can also be used in software development: if a user reports a bug by opening a ticket in the bug tracker, someone must check whether it can be reproduced, what team it should be assigned to, and its severity or priority (that is, how disruptive it is and how urgent it is to fix: is it critical, normal, negligible...?). Some call this process triage. For example, Google uses this term in the Chromium project.
– Fabio Turati
5 hours ago
Just to add the definition: the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties. Now replace wound with a computer word and replace patient with server/workstation.
– JPhi1618
43 mins ago