Topic

RIMC Real-Time Risk Event Severity Level.

Description

The Risk Intelligence Monitoring Center assigns different severity levels to incidents as a method of quickly differentiating them by urgency and possible impact.
The incident Severity Level is classified using the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard color-coded schema. The five severity levels are assigned by NC4 analysts, based on close examination of the following aspects of an incident:

• Current threat to life and or property at the incident site
• Suddenness or urgency of the incident
• Size of the area impacted by the incident
• Potential for escalation of the incident
• Past intensity of the incident
• Potential impact of an incident to the normal processes of an area
• Context of an incident (including sensitivity of location)