SeqOps Alert Categories & Severity Levels
Understanding how SeqOps findings and alerts are organized by category and severity.
Findings and alerts are categorized by the platform to help teams review and prioritize them more effectively. Severity levels indicate how urgent a finding or alert may be based on its potential security impact.
Overview
SeqOps uses categories and severity levels to help teams organize, prioritize, and respond to findings generated by the platform. Severity is based on the potential impact and context of the finding.
Alert Categories
Categories may include:
- •Vulnerability findings
- •Configuration risks
- •Compliance-related findings
- •Agent or integration issues
Customize alert routing to ensure the right team members are notified for each category.
Severity Levels
- •Critical — Findings that should be reviewed first because they may represent the highest potential security impact.
- •High — Significant findings needing prompt attention.
- •Medium — Notable findings for investigation.
- •Low — Lower-priority findings for awareness.
- •Informational — Alerts that provide context or visibility but typically do not require immediate action.
Severity levels should be used as a prioritization aid and reviewed together with the related finding details, affected resources, and remediation guidance.
How Severity Is Used
Severity helps teams:
- •Prioritize review and remediation efforts
- •Identify higher-impact findings first
- •Focus on the most relevant security issues
Best Practices for Reviewing Alerts
Recommended approach:
- •Review critical and high-severity findings first.
- •Investigate related resources and affected systems.
- •Use remediation guidance to plan next steps.
- •Track recurring findings over time.