Outages and security breaches

Description

The Outages and Security Breaches event tracks major disruptions and cybersecurity incidents affecting businesses. These events provide valuable insights into a company’s resilience, data security practices, and operational stability.

Use Cases:

Risk Management: Identify businesses experiencing major disruptions or security threats.
Vendor & Partner Evaluation: Assess potential risks when working with affected companies.
Cybersecurity Monitoring: Track security breaches that could indicate systemic vulnerabilities.
Customer Impact Analysis: Understand how outages and breaches affect business operations and customer trust.

Data Schema

Event Name: "outages_and_security_breaches" (Use this value in the `event_types` parameter when querying this event.)

Signal	API Name	Description	Data Type
Type of incident	incident_type	Categorization of the type of incident that occurred e.g., outage, data breach.	string
Impacted systems	impacted_systems	Text listing the systems that were impacted by the incident.	array<string>
Number of affected customers	number_of_affected_customers	Number of company's customers affected by the incident.	integer
Link to article	link	Link to article reporting the outage, security incident, or data breach.	url
Title	title	The headline of the article, summarizing its main topic	string
Snippet	snippet	A short summary or preview of the article	string
Event name	event_name	Name of the event related to the incident.	string
Event time	event_time	The timestamp indicating when the event actually occurred	datetime

Query Example

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.explorium.ai/v1/businesses/events" \
  -H "API_KEY: your_api_key_here" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "event_types": [
    "outages_and_security_breaches"
  ],
  "business_ids": [
    "8adce3ca1cef0c986b22310e369a0793"
  ],
  "timestamp_from": "2025-01-01T10:03:03.050Z"
}'

Best Practices

Monitor incident trends to assess business stability and security posture.
Analyze impacted systems to determine operational risks.
Correlate security breaches with customer impact to understand reputational damage.

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