About Priority

Priority reflects the relative importance of security-sensitive activity detected by a KUMA correlator. It shows the order in which multiple alerts should be processed, and indicates whether senior security officers should be involved.

The Correlator automatically assigns severity to correlation events and alerts based on correlation rule settings. The severity of an alert also depends on the assets related to the processed events because correlation rules take into account the severity of a related asset's category. If the alert or correlation event does not have linked assets with a defined severity or does not have any related assets at all, the severity of this alert or correlation event is equal to the severity of the correlation rule that triggered them. The alert or the correlation event severity is never lower than the severity of the correlation rule that triggered them.

Alert severity can be changed manually. The severity of alerts changed manually is no longer automatically updated by correlation rules.

Possible severity values:

• Low
• Medium
• High
• Critical