Coordination with Related Plans
LOW ✓ MODERATE ✓ HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
Coordinate incident response testing with organizational elements responsible for related plans.
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
Organizational plans related to incident response testing include business continuity plans, disaster recovery plans, continuity of operations plans, contingency plans, crisis communications plans, critical infrastructure plans, and occupant emergency plans.
Implementation Guidance
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Assessment
Assessment Objectives
- incident response testing is coordinated with organizational elements responsible for related plans.
Examine
[SELECT FROM: Incident response policy; contingency planning policy; procedures addressing incident response testing; incident response testing documentation; incident response plan; business continuity plans; contingency plans; disaster recovery plans; continuity of operations plans; crisis communications plans; critical infrastructure plans; occupant emergency plans; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with incident response testing responsibilities; organizational personnel with responsibilities for testing organizational plans related to incident response testing; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities].
Overlays
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for IR-3(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.
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Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.
Policy
- Incident response policy
- contingency planning policy
- incident response plan
- system security plan
- privacy plan
Other Records
- procedures addressing incident response testing
- incident response testing documentation
- business continuity plans
- contingency plans
- disaster recovery plans
- continuity of operations plans
- crisis communications plans
- critical infrastructure plans
- occupant emergency plans
- other relevant documents or records