misp-taxonomies/incident-disposition/machinetag.json

{
  "namespace": "incident-disposition",
  "description": "How an incident is classified in its process to be resolved. The taxonomy is inspired from NASA Incident Response and Management Handbook. https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/589502main_ITS-HBK-2810.09-02%20%5bNASA%20Information%20Security%20Incident%20Management%5d.pdf#page=9",
  "version": 2,
  "predicates": [
    {
      "value": "incident",
      "expanded": "Incident"
    },
    {
      "value": "not-an-incident",
      "expanded": "Not an incident"
    },
    {
      "value": "duplicate",
      "expanded": "Duplicate"
    }
  ],
  "values": [
    {
      "predicate": "incident",
      "entry": [
        {
          "value": "confirmed",
          "expanded": "Confirmed",
          "description": "The incident is confirmed and response is underway following incident response procedure of the organisation."
        },
        {
          "value": "deferred",
          "expanded": "Deferred",
          "description": "The incident is deferred due to resource constraints, information type or external reasons."
        },
        {
          "value": "unidentified",
          "expanded": "Unidentified",
          "description": "The incident is unidentified because some assets, ressources or context is missing to go a state which can be handled following the incident response response procedure."
        },
        {
          "value": "transferred",
          "expanded": "Transferred",
          "description": "The incident is transferred to another organisations for further processing or incident handling."
        },
        {
          "value": "discarded",
          "expanded": "Discarded",
          "description": "The incident is discarded due to resource constraints, information type or external reasons."
        },
        {
          "value": "silently-discarded",
          "expanded": "Silently discarded",
          "description": "The incident is silently discarded due to resource constraints, information type or external reasons."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "predicate": "not-an-incident",
      "entry": [
        {
          "value": "insufficient-data",
          "expanded": "Insufficient data",
          "description": "When insufficient data is available to explain an ambiguous (i.e., not definitively hostile or benign) indicator, the incident may be dispositioned as Insufficient Data."
        },
        {
          "value": "faulty-indicator",
          "expanded": "Faulty indicator",
          "description": "A false positive where an investigation reveals that the source indicator used as the basis for incident detection was a Faulty Indicator."
        },
        {
          "value": "misconfiguration",
          "expanded": "Misconfiguration",
          "description": "A false positive where an event that appeared to be malicious activity was subsequently disproven and determined to be a Misconfiguration (malfunction) of a system."
        },
        {
          "value": "scan-probe",
          "expanded": "Scan or Probe",
          "description": "Reconnaissance activity which Scanned or Probed for the presence of a vulnerability which may be later exploited to gain unauthorized access."
        },
        {
          "value": "failed",
          "expanded": "Failed",
          "description": "A Failed attempt to gain unauthorized access, conduct a denial of service, install malicious code, or misuse an IT resource, typically because a security control prevented it from succeeding."
        },
        {
          "value": "refuted",
          "expanded": "Refuted",
          "description": "Any other circumstance where a suspected incident was determined to not be an incident and was Refuted."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "predicate": "duplicate",
      "entry": [
        {
          "value": "duplicate",
          "expanded": "Duplicate",
          "description": "An incident may be a Duplicate of another record in the Incident Management System, and should be merged with the existing workflow."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}