Incident Response Training
✓ LOW ✓ MODERATE ✓ HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
- 1.Within [time period] of assuming an incident response role or responsibility or acquiring system access;
- 2.When required by system changes; and
- 3.[frequency] thereafter; and
Requirement Context
This element is part of IR-2 — Incident Response Training. See the Assessment section below for the related SP 800-53A examine/interview/test procedures. No engineering interpretation has been authored for this control yet.
Requirement Context
This element is part of IR-2 — Incident Response Training. See the Assessment section below for the related SP 800-53A examine/interview/test procedures. No engineering interpretation has been authored for this control yet.
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
Incident response training is associated with the assigned roles and responsibilities of organizational personnel to ensure that the appropriate content and level of detail are included in such training. For example, users may only need to know who to call or how to recognize an incident; system administrators may require additional training on how to handle incidents; and incident responders may receive more specific training on forensics, data collection techniques, reporting, system recovery, and system restoration. Incident response training includes user training in identifying and reporting suspicious activities from external and internal sources. Incident response training for users may be provided as part of AT-2 or AT-3 . Events that may precipitate an update to incident response training content include, but are not limited to, incident response plan testing or response to an actual incident (lessons learned), assessment or audit findings, or changes in applicable laws, executive orders, directives, regulations, policies, standards, and guidelines.
Enhancements NIST SOURCE
IR-2(1) Simulated Events LOW MODERATE ✓ HIGH
Incorporate simulated events into incident response training to facilitate the required response by personnel in crisis situations.
Discussion
Organizations establish requirements for responding to incidents in incident response plans. Incorporating simulated events into incident response training helps to ensure that personnel understand their individual responsibilities and what specific actions to take in crisis situations.
IR-2(2) Automated Training Environments LOW MODERATE ✓ HIGH
Provide an incident response training environment using [automated mechanisms].
Discussion
Automated mechanisms can provide a more thorough and realistic incident response training environment. This can be accomplished, for example, by providing more complete coverage of incident response issues, selecting more realistic training scenarios and environments, and stressing the response capability.
IR-2(3) Breach LOW MODERATE HIGH
Provide incident response training on how to identify and respond to a breach, including the organization’s process for reporting a breach.
Discussion
For federal agencies, an incident that involves personally identifiable information is considered a breach. A breach results in the loss of control, compromise, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized acquisition, or a similar occurrence where a person other than an authorized user accesses or potentially accesses personally identifiable information or an authorized user accesses or potentially accesses such information for other than authorized purposes. The incident response training emphasizes the obligation of individuals to report both confirmed and suspected breaches involving information in any medium or form, including paper, oral, and electronic. Incident response training includes tabletop exercises that simulate a breach. See IR-2(1).
Implementation Guidance
Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.
No engineering interpretation has been authored for IR-2 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
Assessment Objectives
- a time period within which incident response training is to be provided to system users assuming an incident response role or responsibility is defined;
- frequency at which to provide incident response training to users is defined;
- frequency at which to review and update incident response training content is defined;
- events that initiate a review of the incident response training content are defined;
- incident response training is provided to system users consistent with assigned roles and responsibilities within <IR-02_ODP[01] time period> of assuming an incident response role or responsibility or acquiring system access;
- incident response training is provided to system users consistent with assigned roles and responsibilities when required by system changes;
- incident response training is provided to system users consistent with assigned roles and responsibilities <IR-02_ODP[02] frequency> thereafter;
- incident response training content is reviewed and updated <IR-02_ODP[03] frequency>;
- incident response training content is reviewed and updated following <IR-02_ODP[04] events>.
Examine
[SELECT FROM: Incident response policy; procedures addressing incident response training; incident response training curriculum; incident response training materials; privacy plan; incident response plan; incident response training records; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with incident response training and operational responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities].
Overlays
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for IR-2. This section is architected to display, per product: STIG ID, Finding ID, Severity, Title, Description, Check, Fix, CCI, and NIST control mapping — but nothing is populated here until a real DISA STIG/CCI dataset is ingested.
Learn more about STIG/CCI integration →Evidence
Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.
Policy
- Incident response policy
- privacy plan
- incident response plan
- system security plan
Other Records
- procedures addressing incident response training
- incident response training curriculum
- incident response training materials
- incident response training records
- other relevant documents or records