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Summary of Digital Resilience Incident Reporting
The Digital Resilience Incident Reporting module within the Operational Resilience Workspace enables organizations to log and report incidents to regulatory authorities. This tool is crucial for maintaining compliance and ensuring that incidents are managed effectively.
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Key Features
- Automated case creation from major incidents in Incident Management and Security Incident Response applications.
- Structured assessment process to determine reportability of incidents.
- Status tracking for reports and assessments, ensuring compliance with regulatory timelines.
- Automated workflow for generating reports: Initial Report (within 24 hours), Intermediate Report (every three days), and Final Report (30 days post-incident closure).
- Export capabilities for incident reports in formats specified by regulators.
- Integration with Incident Management and Security Incident Response applications for seamless reporting.
- Smart assessment features for auto-populating responses in the Assessment Workspace.
Key Outcomes
By utilizing the Digital Resilience Incident Reporting module, ServiceNow customers can expect:
- Timely and accurate reporting of incidents, improving compliance with regulations.
- Efficient tracking and management of incident reports through automated workflows.
- Enhanced visibility into the status of incidents and reporting tasks through the Operational Resilience Workspace.
- Clear classification of incidents based on their impact on critical business services, leading to informed decision-making.
The Digital resilience incident reporting module in the Operational Resilience Workspace is used to log and report incidents data to the regulators.
Key features of Digital resilience incident reporting
- Creates reporting cases automatically from major incidents reported in the Incident Management and Security Incident Response applications.
- Initiates a structured assessment process, including Regulatory reporting assessment to determine if the incident is reportable.
- Tracks the status of reports and assessments, ensuring timely submission and compliance with regulatory timelines.
- Uses automated reporting workflow to generate reports within regulatory reporting timelines:
- Regulatory reporting assessment of IT incidents
- Initial Report (within 24 hours)
- Intermediate Report (every three days until resolved)
- Final Report
- Allows users to export incident reports for further analysis in the format specified by regulatory authorities.
Integration with Incident Management or Security Incident Response
The Digital resilience incident reporting module is available in the Operational Resilience Workspace by default. If you are using the Incident Management or Security Incident Response applications, you can report critical incidents from these Workspaces into the Digital resilience incident reporting module.
Auto-populating the responses in the Assessment Workspace
For the reported DIR case task, an assessment action task is created and assigned to a DIR user. Smart assessment in the Assessment Workspace is used for auto-populating the responses to the assessment. The Assessment Workspace is available to the Digital resilience incident reporting users by default.
Incident classification
When an incident is detected, it is determined whether critical business services are affected. The following approach is followed to classify the incident.
Digital resilience incident reporting workflow
To classify major incidents, the Digital resilience incident reporting (sn_dri_inc_rptg) automatically initiates reporting cases.
- Incident Management
- The incident is classified as critical in the Service Operations Workspace.
- Incident duration: The incident has been open for more than 24 hours and it is still in the Work in progress or Analysis stage.
- The incident involves a critical business service where the business criticality value is 1.
- Security Incident Response:
- The incident is classified as critical in the SIR workspace.
- Incident duration: The incident has been open for more than 24 hours and it is still in the Work in progress or Analysis stage.
- Manual: The incident has been reported manually in the Digital resilience incident reporting module.
States of the case task
- Draft: Any DIR user can create a DIR case task and assign it to the DIR managers group. A notification is sent to the managers group to assign it to one of the managers. DIR case task can also be created automatically from the IM incidents or SIR incidents if they meet the criteria defined in the creation flow (Integration with IM or SIR)
- In progress:
- An action task is created for the DIR case task and assigned to a DIR user. The breach status of the DIR case task is updated based on the response.
- The DIR case task is classified as Parked for Monitoring, Not Reportable, or Reportable based on the assessment response. If it is initially marked as Parked for Monitoring, further updates on the source incident can lead to additional assessments, which may change the status to Reportable if the impacts or breach status warrant it.
- If the DIR case task is identified as Reportable, a new action task is created for the initial report assessment with a due date of 24 hrs and is assigned to any DIR user by the DIR manager handling the case.
- After the initial report action task is completed and submitted, a new action task for the intermediate report is created with a due date as three days.
- Intermediate report assessments are generated every three days until the source incident is closed (Incident Management or Security Incident Response).
- A final report action task is created with a due date of 30 days from the closing date of the source incident.
- Pending approval and Approved: Once the reports are completed, the DIR case task is approved and closed.
Data displayed in Digital resilience incident reporting
- All incident reporting cases
- My incident reporting cases
- Unassigned incident reporting cases
My tasks
- My pending tasks
- My items
- Watchlist
Roles, Scripts, and Tables used for reporting
For information on the roles, scripts, and tables used in Roles installed with Digital resilience incident reporting, see Digital resilience incident reporting reference.