Module 7: Initial Impact Assessment
Impact Categories, Recoverability, and Incident Prioritization
Understanding Impact
Functional impact is the impact that an incident has on the ability of the affected system to provide the services it offers.

Informational impact is the impact that an incident has had or will have on the information that an organization possesses.

Understanding Recoverability
Recoverability is an organization's ability to recover from an incident.

Understanding Incident Prioritization

Creating an Initial Impact Assessment
Elements of an Initial Impact Assessment

Writing an Initial Impact Assessment Document
Walkthrough writing an initial impact assessment document.
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