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Coordinate with Related Plans

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Coordinate contingency plan testing with organizational elements responsible for related plans.

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Plans related to contingency planning for organizational systems include Business Continuity Plans, Disaster Recovery Plans, Continuity of Operations Plans, Crisis Communications Plans, Critical Infrastructure Plans, Cyber Incident Response Plans, and Occupant Emergency Plans. Coordination of contingency plan testing does not require organizations to create organizational elements to handle related plans or to align such elements with specific plans. However, it does require that if such organizational elements are responsible for related plans, organizations coordinate with those elements.

Implementation Guidance

Engineering Interpretation

Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.

No engineering interpretation has been authored for CP-4(1) yet. This section is architected to receive it — see the Requirements and Assessment sections above for the authoritative NIST source content in the meantime.

Assessment

NIST SP 800-53A REV 5.2.0

Assessment Objectives

  1. contingency plan testing is coordinated with organizational elements responsible for related plans.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Contingency planning policy; incident response policy; procedures addressing contingency plan testing; contingency plan testing documentation; contingency plan; business continuity plans; disaster recovery plans; continuity of operations plans; crisis communications plans; critical infrastructure plans; cyber incident response plans; occupant emergency plans; system security plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with contingency plan testing responsibilities; personnel with responsibilities for related plans; organizational personnel with information security responsibilities].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control CP-4 — see the CP-4(1) entries within each baseline below.

OT/ICS Overlay SP 800-82r3

NIST SP 800-82r3 Appendix F, Table 22. Blank baseline means the control/control enhancement is not selected in that initial OT baseline.

LOW

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

MODERATE

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (2)

STIGs & CCIs

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Evidence

Potential Evidence — Derived

Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.

Policy

  • Contingency planning policy
  • incident response policy
  • procedures addressing contingency plan testing
  • contingency plan testing documentation
  • contingency plan
  • system security plan

Other Records

  • business continuity plans
  • disaster recovery plans
  • continuity of operations plans
  • crisis communications plans
  • critical infrastructure plans
  • cyber incident response plans
  • occupant emergency plans
  • other relevant documents or records