Misconception M5 / F7

The alert title is not the incident fact

The alert title is the incident fact.

Wrong claim

Why it feels true

“Impossible travel for jordan.h” is short enough to paste into a payroll email.

Precise correction

NIST SP 800-61 Revision 3 (final 3 April 2025) treats incident response as work that records facts and preserves evidence, not as a title copied from a detector.

The title is a bet that a person should look.

The fact Maya can quote is the identity-provider success log, with its time and source. Human guilt, data theft, and “Jordan did it” stay hypotheses until a record supports them.

NIST SP 800-61 Rev. 3, final 2025-04-03 ↗

MINI-CHECK

An alert titled “Impossible travel for jordan.h” fires. Maya has the 02:14 success log and no TrackPort application logs yet. What does she write first?

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