Episode 12 — Build Triage Discipline: Severity, Scope, Impact, and Containment Priorities
This episode builds the triage discipline that separates high-performing response teams from noisy, reactive ones, and it reinforces the exam-relevant skill of prioritizing correctly when multiple problems compete for attention. You will learn how to determine severity using a balanced view of business impact, urgency, exposure, and confidence, then estimate scope by identifying affected systems, accounts, data, and pathways. We explain how containment choices flow from triage, including how to choose the least disruptive action that still stops spread, and how to recognize when you must escalate to stronger isolation to prevent material harm. Practical guidance includes avoiding common pitfalls like treating every alert as critical, delaying action while chasing perfect certainty, or destroying evidence by making uncontrolled changes too early. You will walk through a scenario involving simultaneous alerts, ambiguous indicators, and operational constraints, practicing how to make a defensible first decision and refine it as facts evolve. 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.
