Its constituency are sites within the DOE . It should provide a means for reporting incidents and for disseminating important incident-related information to management and users. It should concentrate the coordination of incident handling into one effort, thereby eliminating duplication of effort. The definition of an incident may vary for each organisation depending on many factors. The main reason for making a difference is, that Incident Handling covers more than Incident Response .
Most teams provide more services than the response to new incidents.
Incident Response Incident Response is viewed as part of Incident Handling . All actions related to the first reaction on a new incident are covered.