Episode 31 — Prioritize alerts using severity, confidence, and business impact tradeoffs
This episode explains how GSOM expects you to prioritize alerts as a disciplined triage system, not as a gut-feel reaction to whichever notification is loudest. You will define severity as potential impact if the alert is true, confidence as how strongly the evidence supports the detection, and business impact as the operational consequence of both attacker activity and your response actions. We will walk through how these three factors interact when queues are full, such as why a medium-severity alert with high confidence on a privileged identity may outrank a high-severity alert with weak evidence, or why a lower-confidence alert tied to a crown-jewel system may still demand immediate validation. Exam-focused scenarios include competing alerts during peak business hours, incomplete context that forces temporary classification, and how to document assumptions while you escalate or contain. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.
