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Insider Threats — Intra-organization Coordination

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Coordinate an incident handling capability for insider threats that includes the following organizational entities [entities].

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Incident handling for insider threat incidents (e.g., preparation, detection and analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery) requires coordination among many organizational entities, including mission or business owners, system owners, human resources offices, procurement offices, personnel offices, physical security offices, senior agency information security officer, operations personnel, risk executive (function), senior agency official for privacy, and legal counsel. In addition, organizations may require external support from federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.

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 IR-4(7) 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. entities that require coordination for an incident handling capability for insider threats are defined;
  2. an incident handling capability is coordinated for insider threats;
  3. the coordinated incident handling capability includes <IR-04(07)_ODP entities>.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Incident response policy; procedures addressing incident handling; incident response plan; insider threat program plan; insider threat CONOPS; system security plan; privacy plan; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with incident handling responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities; organizational personnel/elements with whom the incident handling capability is to be coordinated].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for coordinating incident handling].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control IR-4 — see the IR-4(7) 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) (4) (11)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for IR-4(7). 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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Evidence

Potential Evidence — Derived

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

Policy

  • Incident response policy
  • incident response plan
  • insider threat program plan
  • system security plan
  • privacy plan

Testing

  • Organizational processes for coordinating incident handling

Other Records

  • procedures addressing incident handling
  • insider threat CONOPS
  • other relevant documents or records