Yesterday I learned about the International Nuclear Event Scale. Given this tool nuclear accidents are characterized in a 7 degree scale as follows:
- 7 – Major Accident
- 6 – Serious Accident
- 5 – Accident with Wider Consequences
- 4 – Accident with Local Conswquences
- 3 – Serious Incident
- 2 – Incident
- 1 – Anomaly
- 0 – Deviation (No safety significance)
Uppon seeing the scale I thought that it could be useful for characterizing cyber incidents too. Yeah I know, like we do not already have enough incident taxonomies. But I like it anyway.
Managing organized complexity 