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Incident log

Handle incidents properly, and be able to prove it afterwards

Personal data breaches, NIS2 incidents, subject access requests and problems at your suppliers are recorded in one place. Each gets its own template, and you are taken through it step by step. Notification, evidence and follow-up sit on the incident itself, so you can show what you did when someone asks six months later.

The incident list in .legal with template, severity and the Reported to authority column
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Templates

Five ready-made templates for the incidents you handle most

A subject access request and a ransomware attack do not need the same information. That is why every incident starts with a choice of template, and the template decides which steps and fields you are asked for. If none of them fits, build your own, from scratch or based on a standard template.

  • Personal data breach, when personal data has been lost or seen by someone who should not have seen it
  • NIS2 incident and information security incident, when your systems are affected
  • Supplier incident, when the problem starts at a supplier or data processor
  • Subject access request, when a person asks to see their data
Step 1 of 7 in the guided flow for a security incident with name, type, severity and status

Guided flow

Nobody has to remember what goes in

In the middle of an incident there is no time to look up what the authority will want to know. The flow takes you through it one step at a time. For an information security incident the steps are incident, access, timeline, services and impact, notification, relations and documentation.

  • Required fields, so the essentials are captured before the incident is created
  • Move back and forth between the steps, and complete the incident when you are ready
  • Severity, status and owner on every incident
The observations list with the menu open and Convert to incident selected

Observations

What employees report does not get lost

Many incidents start with an employee saying: "That looked odd." Employees report observations through a link, and when an observation turns out to be an incident, you convert it directly with the template that fits.

  • No typing it in twice
  • The same observation can also become a risk scenario, so you handle the incident now and follow up on the risk later
The Notification step showing a notification sent to the Danish DPA with date, receipt and reference number

Notification

Reported, notified and the evidence attached

The questions that come afterwards are always the same: Was it reported? When? Were those affected told? And can you prove it? The answers are on the incident. You make the report where you always have, for example to the supervisory authority or your CSIRT, and the log holds the evidence that you did.

  • Whether the notification was sent, when and to whom
  • A copy of the report or receipt attached to the incident, alongside extracts, emails and the supplier's reply
An incident overview with the Tasks tab and follow-up tasks with owner and due date

Follow-up

The follow-up gets a name and a date

Recording the incident is half the job. The other half is the work that follows, and that is the part that quietly stalls.

  • Create tasks straight from the incident with an owner and a due date
  • The owner gets a reminder about the task
  • Documents, notes and access in one place on the incident's own overview
The Compliance Dashboard showing registered incidents by severity

Overview

See where the pressure is

When there are many incidents, the overview matters as much as the individual case.

  • Incidents by severity on the Compliance Dashboard, for the whole group or a single company
  • One list of every incident that you can filter by template, severity and status, and save your own views of
  • Download one incident as a zip with its documents and a PDF summary, or the whole log as Excel

Frameworks

The rules behind it

One log for the rules that ask for it.

  • GDPR

    Articles 33 and 34: document the breach, assess whether it must be reported, and whether data subjects must be told.

    See the GDPR framework
  • NIS2

    Incident handling and reporting are part of the requirements. The NIS2 incident template has the fields for the notification.

    See NIS2 in .legal
  • ISO 27001

    Controls 5.24–5.28 on incident management, from planning to learning and collecting evidence.

    See ISO 27001 in .legal
Caroline, Johannes and Brian from .legal, who help you get started

Demo

See the incident log with your own examples

Bring an incident you have had to the demo, and we will show you how it would look in .legal.

Frequently asked questions about the incident log

What types of incident can we record?

There are five ready-made templates: personal data breach, NIS2 incident, information security incident, supplier incident and subject access request. Each has its own steps and fields. You can also build your own templates, from scratch or based on a standard one.

Can we report to the supervisory authority or CSIRT from the platform?

No. The report itself is made where it always has been. Afterwards you record on the incident that it was sent, when and to whom, and attach the receipt. That way the course of events and the evidence sit in one place.

Does the platform track the NIS2 and GDPR deadlines?

No. There is no countdown and no reminder about the statutory deadlines, neither those in NIS2 nor the 72 hours in GDPR. The log holds the decision and the evidence: whether the incident had to be reported, whether it was, when and to whom.

Does .legal detect incidents?

No. The platform is the documentation, not the detection, and it is not a SIEM. Incidents come in when someone records them or reports an observation.

Can we customise the fields?

Yes. With your own templates you add or remove fields and decide which must be filled in before an incident can be created. A field can be free text, a dropdown, a multi-select dropdown, a checkbox, a date, a legal entity or a calculated field.

What can we show an auditor?

A single incident as a zip with its documents and a PDF summary, and the whole log as Excel. The list also shows whether each incident has been reported to the authority.

See the one incident log use case

Still unsure?

Ask Johannes directly, he runs most demos personally

Book him here
+400 companies use .legal
Region Sjælland
Aarhus Universitet
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Realdania
Right People
IO Gates
PLO
Finans Danmark
geia-food
Evida
Klasselotteriet
NRGI1
BLUE WATER SHIPPING
Karnov
Ingvard Christensen
VP Securities
AH Industries
Lægeforeningen
InMobile
AK Nygart
DEIF
DMJX
Axel logo
qUINT Logo
KAUFMANN (1)
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