Glossary: Incident Response and Resilience

UTC

Also written: Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time: the world's reference clock, with no time zone or daylight saving. Writing every time in UTC lines up logs from different systems. Portland is 7 or 8 hours behind it.

Where the book teaches it

Chapter 1: The incident response process
Chapter 7: Root cause analysis and lessons learned
Chapter 12: Project: ransomware day at Kettle & Crane

Related terms

UTC offset timeline