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Incident management

Incident management is a feature for documenting incidents and data breaches.

1. Navigate to Asset Management and click Incident management.

Asset Management drop-down menu with Incident management highlighted

2. Click + Create incident.

Incident management dashboard with summary cards for total incidents, requires your action, confirmed data breaches, and resolved data breaches

3. Fill in the information about the incident and define its approximate timeline.

Create incident or data breach form with Situation, Tags, Incident information, Timeline, and Type sections

4. Click Create.

Incident management list showing the newly created Incident #1 Loss / theft

1. Open the row actions menu (⋯) of the incident and select Archive.

Incident management list with the row actions menu open showing Edit and Archive

2. Confirm the action.

Archive incident dialog warning that the incident cannot be edited while archived and will be moved under the archived list

The incident is moved to the archived list.

3. To view archived items, open the drop-down menu (⌄) next to Create incident and click Archived.

Incident management with the drop-down menu open showing Archived and Settings options Archived incidents list containing the archived Incident #1

1. Click the ID of the incident or data breach to open it.

2. Click Delete in the drop-down menu (⌄).

Archived incident overview with the drop-down menu open showing Unarchive, Delete, and Settings options

3. Confirm the deletion.

Delete Incident #1 Loss / theft dialog asking 'Are you sure?' with the Confirm button

The incident is deleted and is no longer in the archived list.

Incident management confirming the incident was deleted and is no longer in the archived list