It is important that the ticket/case/records created in the Incident management system have meaningful title as having unified naming conventions will help in the retrospective inquiries for quickly finding the relevant record or extracting statistics easily when an investigation is made. For these and similar reasons, it is necessary to have an idea about the ticket/case just by looking at the title.

There are several methods for naming tickets. The naming method in LetsDefend "Case Management" is as follows.

EventID: {Alert ID Number} - [{Alert Name}]

siem alert naming

Thanks to this naming convention, analysts can quickly access the alarm details they want to reach, by the alarm ID or Name, while examining the past records.

SOAR tickets

When we look at real-world examples, we see that the naming format we described above is a common practice in the industry. In addition, sometimes the following fields may be included in the title: