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[REVIEW] post-incident-review: add SLO error-budget security linkage gates #2750

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[REVIEW] post-incident-review: add SLO error-budget security linkage gates

Skill Being Reviewed

Skill name: post-incident-review
Skill path: skills/incident-response/post-incident-review/

False Positive Analysis

A security incident may have no SLO impact when customer-facing reliability stayed within objective and evidence supports that scope.

Coverage Gaps

The review should link security incidents to SLO/error-budget impact when availability, latency, or integrity commitments are affected. Security fixes can consume reliability budget and change prioritization.

Edge Cases

  • Containment intentionally takes service offline.
  • WAF block reduces attack but increases false positives.
  • Integrity incident affects correctness, not uptime.

Remediation Quality

  • Add fields: affected SLO, error-budget burn, security containment action, customer impact, and follow-up priority.
  • Require product/SRE sign-off when security action affects reliability.
  • Track security-driven reliability debt.

Comparison to Other Tools

SRE tooling tracks budget; PIR must tie security decisions to those metrics.

Overall Assessment

Add SLO linkage gates so incident lessons include reliability and security tradeoffs.

Bounty Info

  • I have read and agree to the CONTRIBUTING.md bounty terms.
  • Preferred payment method: PayPal samik4184@gmail.com

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