DC0109: Process/Event Alarm
This includes a list of any process alarms or alerts produced to indicate unusual or concerning activity within the operational process (e.g., increased temperature/pressure)
Analyst context for executives and security teams
Process/Event Alarm data is the operational warning layer for industrial environments: alarms such as abnormal temperature or pressure can show that a process is moving outside expected conditions. For leaders, this matters because these alarms may be among the few sources that connect cyber monitoring to physical process risk and business continuity decisions.
Executive priority
Treat this data component as a resilience and evidence question: are process alarms captured, retained, reviewed, and correlated with security investigations when operational conditions become unusual? The priority is not simply collecting more alerts, but ensuring security, operations, and incident response teams can use alarm evidence to support timely decisions, escalation, audit readiness, and cyber-physical risk assessment.
Technical view
ATT&CK defines this ICS data component as a list of process alarms or alerts indicating unusual or concerning operational activity. No platforms, tactics, detection text, or relationships are supplied, so validation should focus on whether local operational alarm sources exist, what fields they provide, how they are timestamped, and whether SOC or IR workflows can correlate them with other security and operational evidence without assuming they are security alerts by default.
Likely telemetry
- Process alarm records from operational systems
- Event alarm logs indicating abnormal process conditions
- Alarm attributes such as time, affected process area or asset, alarm type, severity, and measured condition when available
- Historical alarm lists or retained alert exports used for investigation and compliance evidence
Detection direction
- Confirm which process alarms are available to security or incident response teams and which remain only inside operations workflows.
- Validate timestamp quality, retention, ownership, and access paths for alarm records before relying on them during incidents.
- Tune analysis to distinguish routine operational excursions, maintenance activity, and sensor/process anomalies from events that require security escalation.
- Correlate alarm timing with other locally available evidence where possible, while avoiding unsupported assumptions because ATT&CK provides no detection logic or relationship context for this object.
Mitigation priorities
- Establish governance for alarm collection, retention, access, and review across operations, security, and incident response stakeholders.
- Prioritize high-consequence process alarms for reliable retention and escalation procedures.
- Document how process alarm evidence is preserved and used during investigations, exercises, compliance reviews, and post-incident analysis.
- Review blind spots where critical alarms are not exported, are overwritten quickly, or are inaccessible to responders during time-sensitive events.
Analyst notes and limits
This object is a data component, not a technique. Its value is evidentiary: it helps teams understand unusual operational process conditions that may matter during cyber-physical investigations or resilience reviews. Because no relationships are supplied, this take does not map it to specific ATT&CK techniques, tactics, platforms, threat actors, or exploitation scenarios.
Official detection guidance, platforms, tactics, labels, aliases, and relationship context were not provided. Local engineering architecture, alarm configuration, historian/SIEM integration, and operational procedures are required to determine actual coverage and decision value.
Process/Event Alarm
This includes a list of any process alarms or alerts produced to indicate unusual or concerning activity within the operational process (e.g., increased temperature/pressure)
How security teams should use this page
Treat this object as behavior context, not an attribution claim. Validate the related groups, software, data sources, and mitigations against official ATT&CK relationships and your own telemetry before making control-coverage decisions.
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Imported snapshots across ATT&CK releases (1)
| Release | Bundle imported | Object version | Modified | Status | Raw hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19.1 | 2.1 | Current bundle | 70dea3f30e44… |
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