Security Incident Communications Cheat Sheet

Status, updates, and postmortems

Last Updated: November 21, 2025

Focus Areas

Focus
Assign comms and scribe roles
Log updates every 15 minutes

Commands & Queries

incident start --title 'Outage'
Start incident
incident update --status monitoring
Publish status
incident close --summary 'Fixed'
Wrap up

Summary

Structured comms keep stakeholders informed in incidents.

💡 Pro Tip: Share status updates publicly when appropriate.
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