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# ISO/IEC 27035 Event vs Incident FAQ

How should teams distinguish a security event from an information security incident under ISO/IEC 27035? Practical answer with owners, evidence, review triggers, and external source references.

*Side-by-side* *Global* *ISO/IEC 27035*

## ISO/IEC 27035 FAQ Event vs Incident

How should teams distinguish a security event from an information security incident under ISO/IEC 27035?

Grounded in external ISO, NIST, EU, or framework sources where relevant. This is practical implementation guidance, supporting implementation planning and should be validated against jurisdiction-specific legal, contractual, and policy requirements before implementation.

This FAQ for Event vs Incident defines trigger and scope, accountable owner, evidence requirements, and review timing.

## Event vs Incident under ISO/IEC 27035

Use this comparison to decide when an observed security-relevant occurrence stays an event for triage and logging, and when it becomes an information security incident that requires response, escalation, and lessons learned.

- **Event**: An event is a detected or reported security-relevant occurrence that needs recording, triage, and assessment before the team knows whether incident criteria are met.
- **Incident**: An incident is one or more related information security events that meet the organization's criteria for harm or compromise and require managed response.

| Dimension | Event | Incident | Operational implication | Sources |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Scope and covered activity | A security-relevant occurrence, alert, report, control failure, or unusual condition that may indicate a breach or weakness but still needs assessment. | One or more related and identified events that meet incident criteria and can harm assets, operations, confidentiality, integrity, or availability. | Classify broadly at intake, then promote only events that meet the documented incident criteria. | [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process. |
| Who must act | Monitoring, service desk, SOC, product, supplier, or control owners can record and enrich the event. | Incident manager, response team, communications, legal, privacy, service owner, and evidence custodian take accountable response roles. | Keep event intake lightweight, but pre-assign incident roles so escalation is fast. | [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process. |
| Trigger or threshold | Triggered by detection, user report, supplier notice, system alert, vulnerability signal, failed control, or anomalous activity. | Triggered when assessment shows actual or likely impact, compromise, policy breach, or a defined severity threshold. | The threshold belongs in the severity matrix, not in ad hoc judgment during a crisis. | [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process. |
| Core obligations | Event requires practical governance: scope, roles, risk or impact decisions, evidence, operating cadence, monitoring, review, and improvement. | Incident expects its own required or recommended outcomes, which may include legal duties, assurance criteria, control objectives, profiles, or risk methodology. | Translate both sides into a single task register only after labeling which requirement or guidance source each task satisfies. | [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process. |
| Evidence and records | Event log, source alert, reporter details, timestamp, affected asset, initial classification, triage notes, and closure or escalation reason. | Incident record, severity decision, response timeline, containment and recovery actions, notifications, approvals, retained logs, and lessons-learned actions. | Evidence should show the decision path from detection to closure or incident response. | [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process. |
| Timing and cadence | Handled through intake and triage clocks set by monitoring, service, and risk procedures. | Handled through incident-response SLAs, legal-notification review windows, customer commitments, and recovery objectives. | Separate triage timing from incident response timing so routine alerts do not hide urgent incidents. | [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process. |
| Enforcement or assurance route | Reviewed through monitoring quality, internal audit, control testing, and trend analysis. | Reviewed through incident postmortems, management review, audit evidence, customer assurance, and regulator or contract reporting where applicable. | Both records may be audited, but incident records need stronger chain-of-custody and decision evidence. | [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process. |
| Overlap and reuse | May become an incident after correlation or assessment, or may close as benign, duplicate, expected, or informational. | Always starts from event evidence, but requires a response record once criteria are met. | Maintain a clear status transition so evidence can be reused without rewriting history. | [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process. |
| Practical decision rule | Use Event when the team is observing, logging, enriching, correlating, or assessing a possible security issue. | Use Incident when the team has confirmed incident criteria and must coordinate response, recovery, communications, and lessons learned. | The operating rule should be simple enough for first-line triage to apply consistently. | [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process. |

Sources for Scope and covered activity - Event:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Scope and covered activity - Incident:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Scope and covered activity - operational implication:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Who must act - Event:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Who must act - Incident:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Who must act - operational implication:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Trigger or threshold - Event:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Trigger or threshold - Incident:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Trigger or threshold - operational implication:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Core obligations - Event:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Core obligations - Incident:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Core obligations - operational implication:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Evidence and records - Event:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Evidence and records - Incident:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Evidence and records - operational implication:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Timing and cadence - Event:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Timing and cadence - Incident:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Timing and cadence - operational implication:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Enforcement or assurance route - Event:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Enforcement or assurance route - Incident:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Enforcement or assurance route - operational implication:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Overlap and reuse - Event:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Overlap and reuse - Incident:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Overlap and reuse - operational implication:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Practical decision rule - Event:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Practical decision rule - Incident:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

Sources for Practical decision rule - operational implication:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

### How should teams decide between Event and Incident for compliance planning?

- Treat it as an Event while the team is only observing, recording, enriching, correlating, or assessing a possible issue and incident criteria have not been met.
- Treat it as an Incident once analysis shows the occurrence actually or imminently jeopardizes confidentiality, integrity, or availability, or constitutes a violation or imminent threat of violation of law, security policies, security procedures, or acceptable use policies.
- Move the record from Event to Incident when the incident criteria in your policy are met, and keep the response, recovery, communication, and lessons-learned records together.

Sources for the practical decision rule:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"

## How should teams distinguish a security event from an information security incident under ISO/IEC 27035?

Start with the operational decision: define what Event vs Incident means in your ISO/IEC 27035 scope, who owns it, and what record proves the decision is current.

For incident work, decide the timer and escalation path before an event occurs: classification, severity, legal-notification review, containment owner, communications owner, recovery owner, and evidence custodian. This keeps the answer useful in audits, customer reviews, incidents, supplier reviews, and management review.

- Name the accountable owner and reviewer for Event vs Incident.
- Record the scope, assumptions, decision, approval date, evidence location, exception status, and next review trigger.
- Escalate when Event vs Incident changes risk acceptance, service commitments, customer promises, regulatory duties, or certification evidence.

Sources for this answer:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
- [ISO/IEC 27035-2:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78974.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for planning, preparing, and lessons-learned guidance.

## What evidence should prove Event vs Incident is current under ISO/IEC 27035?

The evidence should show the process operating. For this artifact, the strongest record usually includes incident policy, response plan, severity matrix, triage records, escalation logs, notifications, containment and recovery notes, lessons learned, and retained logs.

Avoid evidence that only repeats a requirement. A reviewer should be able to see the actual owner, date, system, supplier, AI system, service, incident, risk, or control sample behind the answer.

- Use source records from the system of work, not screenshots created only for audit day.
- Keep exceptions visible as risk acceptance, corrective action, or management-review input.
- Update linked registers when the answer changes an owner, risk, control, service, supplier, or review date.

Sources for this answer:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-2:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78974.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for planning, preparing, and lessons-learned guidance.
- [ISO/IEC 27035-3:2020 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/74033.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for ICT incident response operations guidance.

## Who should approve Event vs Incident decisions under ISO/IEC 27035?

The person who can fund, operate, and correct the process should own the decision; governance should review consistency and exceptions.

For high-impact changes, approval should include the teams affected by the evidence: security, privacy, resilience, supplier management, AI governance, legal, risk, or business service owners as relevant.

- Use a named owner, named backup, and named escalation forum.
- Separate preparation work from risk acceptance and final approval.
- Keep approval records with the evidence rather than in disconnected email threads.

Sources for this answer:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
- [ISO/IEC 27035-2:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78974.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for planning, preparing, and lessons-learned guidance.

## When should Event vs Incident be reviewed under ISO/IEC 27035?

Review it at planned intervals and whenever the underlying scope, service, supplier, control, risk, AI system, personal data flow, incident process, or customer commitment changes.

A stale record is worse than a short record. If the facts change, update the evidence and mark what changed so the next reviewer can trust the page.

- Set a planned review date and a change-trigger rule.
- Use findings to update controls, procedures, contracts, risk registers, or training.
- Carry unresolved items into management review or risk acceptance.

Sources for this answer:

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
- [ISO/IEC 27035-2:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78974.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for planning, preparing, and lessons-learned guidance.

## Primary sources

- [ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78973.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for incident management principles and process.
  - Quote: "preparing for, detecting, reporting, assessing, and responding to incidents"
- [ISO/IEC 27035-2:2023 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/78974.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for planning, preparing, and lessons-learned guidance.
  - Quote: "plan and prepare for incident response and to learn lessons"
- [ISO/IEC 27035-3:2020 standard page](https://www.iso.org/standard/74033.html?ref=sorena.io) - Primary ISO listing for ICT incident response operations guidance.
  - Quote: "information security incident response in ICT security operations"

## Topic Guides

- [ISO/IEC 27035 Compliance Guide](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/compliance.md): ISO/IEC 27035 Compliance for ISO/IEC 27035 Information Security Incident Management: practical decisions, evidence, owners, review cadence, and source-linked implementation guidance.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 CSIRT Roles FAQ](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/faq/csirt-roles.md): How should teams handle CSIRT Roles under ISO/IEC 27035? Practical answer with owners, evidence, review triggers, and external source references.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 Escalation FAQ](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/faq/escalation.md): How should teams handle Escalation under ISO/IEC 27035? Practical answer with owners, evidence, review triggers, and external source references.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 Evidence Log Template and Workflow](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/evidence-log-template.md): ISO/IEC 27035 Evidence Log Template for ISO/IEC 27035 Information Security Incident Management: practical decisions, evidence, owners, review cadence, and source-linked implementation guidance.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 Incident Lifecycle Guide](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/incident-lifecycle.md): ISO/IEC 27035 Incident Lifecycle for ISO/IEC 27035 Information Security Incident Management: practical decisions, evidence, owners, review cadence, and source-linked implementation guidance.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 Incident Lifecycle Workflow](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/incident-lifecycle-workflow.md): ISO/IEC 27035 Incident Lifecycle Workflow for ISO/IEC 27035 Information Security Incident Management: practical decisions, evidence, owners, review cadence, and source-linked implementation guidance.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 Incident Management FAQ](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/faq.md): ISO/IEC 27035 FAQ for ISO/IEC 27035 Information Security Incident Management: practical decisions, evidence, owners, review cadence, and source-linked implementation guidance.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 Incident Response Playbook](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/incident-response-playbook.md): ISO/IEC 27035 Incident Response Playbook for ISO/IEC 27035 Information Security Incident Management: practical decisions, evidence, owners, review cadence, and source-linked implementation guidance.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 Incident Severity and Escalation Matrix](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/incident-severity-and-escalation-matrix.md): ISO/IEC 27035 Incident Severity and Escalation Matrix for ISO/IEC 27035 Information Security Incident Management: practical decisions, evidence, owners, review cadence, and source-linked implementation guidance.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 Incident Timer Workflow Template and Workflow](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/incident-timer-workflow.md): ISO/IEC 27035 Incident Timer Workflow for ISO/IEC 27035 Information Security Incident Management: practical decisions, evidence, owners, review cadence, and source-linked implementation guidance.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 Lessons Learned FAQ](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/faq/lessons-learned.md): How should teams handle Lessons Learned under ISO/IEC 27035? Practical answer with owners, evidence, review triggers, and external source references.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 Notification Evidence FAQ](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/faq/notification-evidence.md): How should teams handle Notification Evidence under ISO/IEC 27035? Practical answer with owners, evidence, review triggers, and external source references.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 Notification Threshold Mapping Guide](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/notification-threshold-mapping.md): ISO/IEC 27035 Notification Threshold Mapping for ISO/IEC 27035 Information Security Incident Management: practical decisions, evidence, owners, review cadence, and source-linked implementation guidance.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 Post Incident Review FAQ](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/faq/post-incident-review.md): How should teams handle Post Incident Review under ISO/IEC 27035? Practical answer with owners, evidence, review triggers, and external source references.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 Retained Logs FAQ](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/faq/retained-logs.md): How should teams handle Retained Logs under ISO/IEC 27035? Practical answer with owners, evidence, review triggers, and external source references.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 Severity Classification FAQ](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/faq/severity-classification.md): How should teams handle Severity Classification under ISO/IEC 27035? Practical answer with owners, evidence, review triggers, and external source references.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 vs ISO 22301 Comparison](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/iso-27035-vs-iso-22301.md): ISO/IEC 27035 vs ISO 22301 for ISO/IEC 27035 Information Security Incident Management: practical decisions, evidence, owners, review cadence, and source-linked implementation guidance.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 vs NIS2 Comparison](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/iso-27035-vs-nis2.md): ISO/IEC 27035 vs NIS2 for ISO/IEC 27035 Information Security Incident Management: practical decisions, evidence, owners, review cadence, and source-linked implementation guidance.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 vs NIST SP 800-61 Comparison](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/iso-27035-vs-nist-800-61.md): ISO/IEC 27035 vs NIST SP 800-61 for ISO/IEC 27035 Information Security Incident Management: practical decisions, evidence, owners, review cadence, and source-linked implementation guidance.
- [ISO/IEC 27035 vs NIST SP 800-61 Rev. 3 Comparison](/artifacts/global/iso-27035/iso-27035-vs-nist-800-61r3.md): ISO/IEC 27035 vs NIST SP 800-61 Rev. 3 for ISO/IEC 27035 Information Security Incident Management: practical decisions, evidence, owners, review cadence, and source-linked implementation guidance.

*Recommended next step*

*Placement: after implementation guidance*

## Operationalize Event vs Incident

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- [Open Assessment Autopilot for ISO/IEC 27035](/solutions/assessment.md): Convert Event vs Incident into accountable tasks, evidence requests, and review checkpoints.
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