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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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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 Apr 9 at 20:52
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asked Apr 9 at 19:27
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It means the same thing, just applied to tech/business issues rather than medical issues.
– Matthew Read
Apr 9 at 21:45
3
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
Apr 9 at 23:38
2
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
Apr 10 at 3:58
There was an Arabic website for hackers called something like "TrYaG AlArab" but it is shut down about 9 years ago, your question just reminded me with this website. This same word exists in the Arabic language also but it comes with the meaning "medicine"
– AccountantM
Apr 10 at 6:45
add a comment |
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 Apr 9 at 20:52
schroeder♦
79k30175212
asked Apr 9 at 19:27
victor26567victor26567
33134
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
edited Apr 9 at 20:52
schroeder♦
79k30175212
asked Apr 9 at 19:27
victor26567victor26567
33134
edited Apr 9 at 20:52
schroeder♦
79k30175212
asked Apr 9 at 19:27
victor26567victor26567
33134
edited Apr 9 at 20:52
schroeder♦
79k30175212
edited Apr 9 at 20:52
schroeder♦
79k30175212
edited Apr 9 at 20:52
schroeder♦
79k30175212
79k30175212
asked Apr 9 at 19:27
victor26567victor26567
33134
asked Apr 9 at 19:27
victor26567victor26567
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asked Apr 9 at 19:27
victor26567victor26567
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8
It means the same thing, just applied to tech/business issues rather than medical issues.
– Matthew Read
Apr 9 at 21:45
3
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
Apr 9 at 23:38
2
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
Apr 10 at 3:58
There was an Arabic website for hackers called something like "TrYaG AlArab" but it is shut down about 9 years ago, your question just reminded me with this website. This same word exists in the Arabic language also but it comes with the meaning "medicine"
– AccountantM
Apr 10 at 6:45
add a comment |
8
It means the same thing, just applied to tech/business issues rather than medical issues.
– Matthew Read
Apr 9 at 21:45
3
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
Apr 9 at 23:38
2
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
Apr 10 at 3:58
There was an Arabic website for hackers called something like "TrYaG AlArab" but it is shut down about 9 years ago, your question just reminded me with this website. This same word exists in the Arabic language also but it comes with the meaning "medicine"
– AccountantM
Apr 10 at 6:45
8
8
It means the same thing, just applied to tech/business issues rather than medical issues.
– Matthew Read
Apr 9 at 21:45
It means the same thing, just applied to tech/business issues rather than medical issues.
– Matthew Read
Apr 9 at 21:45
3
3
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
Apr 9 at 23:38
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
Apr 9 at 23:38
2
2
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
Apr 10 at 3:58
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
Apr 10 at 3:58
There was an Arabic website for hackers called something like "TrYaG AlArab" but it is shut down about 9 years ago, your question just reminded me with this website. This same word exists in the Arabic language also but it comes with the meaning "medicine"
– AccountantM
Apr 10 at 6:45
There was an Arabic website for hackers called something like "TrYaG AlArab" but it is shut down about 9 years ago, your question just reminded me with this website. This same word exists in the Arabic language also but it comes with the meaning "medicine"
– AccountantM
Apr 10 at 6:45
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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 Apr 9 at 19:33
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
Apr 9 at 19:39
35
Poor lil' Inspiron :(
– Kyle Vassella
Apr 9 at 21:10
6
In the modern medical world I think there is very little "letting one go so the other might live" - it's more about making the person with a broken leg wait (they probably won't die in the meantime) while they fix the unconscious person who's been knifed (who probably will).
– Martin Bonner
Apr 10 at 17:18
8
@MartinBonner Then assume by 'doctor' I meant 'battlefield medic'. :)
– Adonalsium
Apr 10 at 18:18
4
@MartinBonner it depends of the context, usually there is time to provide some assistance to everyone and it is just a matter of avoiding that you do not fail to provide care to the urgent cases because you are dealing with the non-urgent ones (you just will not get 400 hearts attacks at the same time at an hospital). But if there are suddenly lots of critical cases (for example, after an earthquake or other disaster) then the part about deciding who is too injured to survive (and hence a drain of much needed resources) may kick in.
– SJuan76
Apr 10 at 20:19
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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.
edited Apr 10 at 18:35
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John DetersJohn Deters
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Worth noting that this can also be an ongoing process. Alerts are always numerous, so an initial sift, sort, and send is typically conducted by one person, while the rest of the team deep dives into the issues raised.
– Jozef Woods
Apr 10 at 7:26
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In addition to the other great answers, the term triage is also used in the bugbounty bug report process to mean the process of initially reproducing the issue and assigning a priority to it.
Triage
The process of validating a vulnerability submission from raw submission to a valid, easily digestible report.
Source: https://www.bugcrowd.com/resources/glossary/triage/
Or when talking about various states of a reported bug:
Triaged: A submission that may be valid, but needs to be reviewed again and validated.
Source: https://docs.bugcrowd.com/docs/submission-status
The term is used in similar context by HackerOne as well (though they have less states for a submission so this covers more than the same-name state by BugCrowd):
Triaged - The report is evaluated but hasn't been resolved. It is in the state of being fixed.
Source: https://docs.hackerone.com/hackers/report-states.html
answered Apr 10 at 15:56
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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 Apr 9 at 19:33
AdonalsiumAdonalsium
3,90611121
2
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
Apr 9 at 19:39
35
Poor lil' Inspiron :(
– Kyle Vassella
Apr 9 at 21:10
6
In the modern medical world I think there is very little "letting one go so the other might live" - it's more about making the person with a broken leg wait (they probably won't die in the meantime) while they fix the unconscious person who's been knifed (who probably will).
– Martin Bonner
Apr 10 at 17:18
8
@MartinBonner Then assume by 'doctor' I meant 'battlefield medic'. :)
– Adonalsium
Apr 10 at 18:18
4
@MartinBonner it depends of the context, usually there is time to provide some assistance to everyone and it is just a matter of avoiding that you do not fail to provide care to the urgent cases because you are dealing with the non-urgent ones (you just will not get 400 hearts attacks at the same time at an hospital). But if there are suddenly lots of critical cases (for example, after an earthquake or other disaster) then the part about deciding who is too injured to survive (and hence a drain of much needed resources) may kick in.
– SJuan76
Apr 10 at 20:19
|
show 5 more comments
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 Apr 9 at 19:33
AdonalsiumAdonalsium
3,90611121
2
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
Apr 9 at 19:39
35
Poor lil' Inspiron :(
– Kyle Vassella
Apr 9 at 21:10
6
In the modern medical world I think there is very little "letting one go so the other might live" - it's more about making the person with a broken leg wait (they probably won't die in the meantime) while they fix the unconscious person who's been knifed (who probably will).
– Martin Bonner
Apr 10 at 17:18
8
@MartinBonner Then assume by 'doctor' I meant 'battlefield medic'. :)
– Adonalsium
Apr 10 at 18:18
4
@MartinBonner it depends of the context, usually there is time to provide some assistance to everyone and it is just a matter of avoiding that you do not fail to provide care to the urgent cases because you are dealing with the non-urgent ones (you just will not get 400 hearts attacks at the same time at an hospital). But if there are suddenly lots of critical cases (for example, after an earthquake or other disaster) then the part about deciding who is too injured to survive (and hence a drain of much needed resources) may kick in.
– SJuan76
Apr 10 at 20:19
|
show 5 more comments
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 Apr 9 at 19:33
AdonalsiumAdonalsium
3,90611121
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 Apr 9 at 19:33
AdonalsiumAdonalsium
3,90611121
answered Apr 9 at 19:33
AdonalsiumAdonalsium
3,90611121
answered Apr 9 at 19:33
AdonalsiumAdonalsium
3,90611121
answered Apr 9 at 19:33
AdonalsiumAdonalsium
3,90611121
3,90611121
2
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
Apr 9 at 19:39
35
Poor lil' Inspiron :(
– Kyle Vassella
Apr 9 at 21:10
6
In the modern medical world I think there is very little "letting one go so the other might live" - it's more about making the person with a broken leg wait (they probably won't die in the meantime) while they fix the unconscious person who's been knifed (who probably will).
– Martin Bonner
Apr 10 at 17:18
8
@MartinBonner Then assume by 'doctor' I meant 'battlefield medic'. :)
– Adonalsium
Apr 10 at 18:18
4
@MartinBonner it depends of the context, usually there is time to provide some assistance to everyone and it is just a matter of avoiding that you do not fail to provide care to the urgent cases because you are dealing with the non-urgent ones (you just will not get 400 hearts attacks at the same time at an hospital). But if there are suddenly lots of critical cases (for example, after an earthquake or other disaster) then the part about deciding who is too injured to survive (and hence a drain of much needed resources) may kick in.
– SJuan76
Apr 10 at 20:19
|
show 5 more comments
2
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
Apr 9 at 19:39
35
Poor lil' Inspiron :(
– Kyle Vassella
Apr 9 at 21:10
6
In the modern medical world I think there is very little "letting one go so the other might live" - it's more about making the person with a broken leg wait (they probably won't die in the meantime) while they fix the unconscious person who's been knifed (who probably will).
– Martin Bonner
Apr 10 at 17:18
8
@MartinBonner Then assume by 'doctor' I meant 'battlefield medic'. :)
– Adonalsium
Apr 10 at 18:18
4
@MartinBonner it depends of the context, usually there is time to provide some assistance to everyone and it is just a matter of avoiding that you do not fail to provide care to the urgent cases because you are dealing with the non-urgent ones (you just will not get 400 hearts attacks at the same time at an hospital). But if there are suddenly lots of critical cases (for example, after an earthquake or other disaster) then the part about deciding who is too injured to survive (and hence a drain of much needed resources) may kick in.
– SJuan76
Apr 10 at 20:19
2
2
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
Apr 9 at 19:39
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
Apr 9 at 19:39
35
35
Poor lil' Inspiron :(
– Kyle Vassella
Apr 9 at 21:10
Poor lil' Inspiron :(
– Kyle Vassella
Apr 9 at 21:10
6
6
In the modern medical world I think there is very little "letting one go so the other might live" - it's more about making the person with a broken leg wait (they probably won't die in the meantime) while they fix the unconscious person who's been knifed (who probably will).
– Martin Bonner
Apr 10 at 17:18
In the modern medical world I think there is very little "letting one go so the other might live" - it's more about making the person with a broken leg wait (they probably won't die in the meantime) while they fix the unconscious person who's been knifed (who probably will).
– Martin Bonner
Apr 10 at 17:18
8
8
@MartinBonner Then assume by 'doctor' I meant 'battlefield medic'. :)
– Adonalsium
Apr 10 at 18:18
@MartinBonner Then assume by 'doctor' I meant 'battlefield medic'. :)
– Adonalsium
Apr 10 at 18:18
4
4
@MartinBonner it depends of the context, usually there is time to provide some assistance to everyone and it is just a matter of avoiding that you do not fail to provide care to the urgent cases because you are dealing with the non-urgent ones (you just will not get 400 hearts attacks at the same time at an hospital). But if there are suddenly lots of critical cases (for example, after an earthquake or other disaster) then the part about deciding who is too injured to survive (and hence a drain of much needed resources) may kick in.
– SJuan76
Apr 10 at 20:19
@MartinBonner it depends of the context, usually there is time to provide some assistance to everyone and it is just a matter of avoiding that you do not fail to provide care to the urgent cases because you are dealing with the non-urgent ones (you just will not get 400 hearts attacks at the same time at an hospital). But if there are suddenly lots of critical cases (for example, after an earthquake or other disaster) then the part about deciding who is too injured to survive (and hence a drain of much needed resources) may kick in.
– SJuan76
Apr 10 at 20:19
|
show 5 more comments
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.
edited Apr 10 at 18:35
yoozer8
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Worth noting that this can also be an ongoing process. Alerts are always numerous, so an initial sift, sort, and send is typically conducted by one person, while the rest of the team deep dives into the issues raised.
– Jozef Woods
Apr 10 at 7:26
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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.
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Worth noting that this can also be an ongoing process. Alerts are always numerous, so an initial sift, sort, and send is typically conducted by one person, while the rest of the team deep dives into the issues raised.
– Jozef Woods
Apr 10 at 7:26
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.
edited Apr 10 at 18:35
yoozer8
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answered Apr 9 at 21:56
John DetersJohn Deters
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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.
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answered Apr 9 at 21:56
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yoozer8
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yoozer8
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answered Apr 9 at 21:56
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Worth noting that this can also be an ongoing process. Alerts are always numerous, so an initial sift, sort, and send is typically conducted by one person, while the rest of the team deep dives into the issues raised.
– Jozef Woods
Apr 10 at 7:26
add a comment |
Worth noting that this can also be an ongoing process. Alerts are always numerous, so an initial sift, sort, and send is typically conducted by one person, while the rest of the team deep dives into the issues raised.
– Jozef Woods
Apr 10 at 7:26
Worth noting that this can also be an ongoing process. Alerts are always numerous, so an initial sift, sort, and send is typically conducted by one person, while the rest of the team deep dives into the issues raised.
– Jozef Woods
Apr 10 at 7:26
Worth noting that this can also be an ongoing process. Alerts are always numerous, so an initial sift, sort, and send is typically conducted by one person, while the rest of the team deep dives into the issues raised.
– Jozef Woods
Apr 10 at 7:26
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In addition to the other great answers, the term triage is also used in the bugbounty bug report process to mean the process of initially reproducing the issue and assigning a priority to it.
Triage
The process of validating a vulnerability submission from raw submission to a valid, easily digestible report.
Source: https://www.bugcrowd.com/resources/glossary/triage/
Or when talking about various states of a reported bug:
Triaged: A submission that may be valid, but needs to be reviewed again and validated.
Source: https://docs.bugcrowd.com/docs/submission-status
The term is used in similar context by HackerOne as well (though they have less states for a submission so this covers more than the same-name state by BugCrowd):
Triaged - The report is evaluated but hasn't been resolved. It is in the state of being fixed.
Source: https://docs.hackerone.com/hackers/report-states.html
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In addition to the other great answers, the term triage is also used in the bugbounty bug report process to mean the process of initially reproducing the issue and assigning a priority to it.
Triage
The process of validating a vulnerability submission from raw submission to a valid, easily digestible report.
Source: https://www.bugcrowd.com/resources/glossary/triage/
Or when talking about various states of a reported bug:
Triaged: A submission that may be valid, but needs to be reviewed again and validated.
Source: https://docs.bugcrowd.com/docs/submission-status
The term is used in similar context by HackerOne as well (though they have less states for a submission so this covers more than the same-name state by BugCrowd):
Triaged - The report is evaluated but hasn't been resolved. It is in the state of being fixed.
Source: https://docs.hackerone.com/hackers/report-states.html
answered Apr 10 at 15:56
Torin42Torin42
1562
add a comment |
In addition to the other great answers, the term triage is also used in the bugbounty bug report process to mean the process of initially reproducing the issue and assigning a priority to it.
Triage
The process of validating a vulnerability submission from raw submission to a valid, easily digestible report.
Source: https://www.bugcrowd.com/resources/glossary/triage/
Or when talking about various states of a reported bug:
Triaged: A submission that may be valid, but needs to be reviewed again and validated.
Source: https://docs.bugcrowd.com/docs/submission-status
The term is used in similar context by HackerOne as well (though they have less states for a submission so this covers more than the same-name state by BugCrowd):
Triaged - The report is evaluated but hasn't been resolved. It is in the state of being fixed.
Source: https://docs.hackerone.com/hackers/report-states.html
answered Apr 10 at 15:56
Torin42Torin42
1562
In addition to the other great answers, the term triage is also used in the bugbounty bug report process to mean the process of initially reproducing the issue and assigning a priority to it.
Triage
The process of validating a vulnerability submission from raw submission to a valid, easily digestible report.
Source: https://www.bugcrowd.com/resources/glossary/triage/
Or when talking about various states of a reported bug:
Triaged: A submission that may be valid, but needs to be reviewed again and validated.
Source: https://docs.bugcrowd.com/docs/submission-status
The term is used in similar context by HackerOne as well (though they have less states for a submission so this covers more than the same-name state by BugCrowd):
Triaged - The report is evaluated but hasn't been resolved. It is in the state of being fixed.
Source: https://docs.hackerone.com/hackers/report-states.html
answered Apr 10 at 15:56
Torin42Torin42
1562
answered Apr 10 at 15:56
Torin42Torin42
1562
answered Apr 10 at 15:56
Torin42Torin42
1562
answered Apr 10 at 15:56
Torin42Torin42
1562
1562
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It means the same thing, just applied to tech/business issues rather than medical issues.
– Matthew Read
Apr 9 at 21:45
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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
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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
Apr 10 at 3:58
There was an Arabic website for hackers called something like "TrYaG AlArab" but it is shut down about 9 years ago, your question just reminded me with this website. This same word exists in the Arabic language also but it comes with the meaning "medicine"
– AccountantM
Apr 10 at 6:45