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Vulnerabilities Related to Incidents

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Report system vulnerabilities associated with reported incidents to [personnel or roles].

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Reported incidents that uncover system vulnerabilities are analyzed by organizational personnel including system owners, mission and business owners, senior agency information security officers, senior agency officials for privacy, authorizing officials, and the risk executive (function). The analysis can serve to prioritize and initiate mitigation actions to address the discovered system vulnerability.

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-6(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

NIST SP 800-53A REV 5.2.0

Assessment Objectives

  1. personnel or roles to whom system vulnerabilities associated with reported incidents are reported to is/are defined;
  2. system vulnerabilities associated with reported incidents are reported to <IR-06(02)_ODP personnel or roles>.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Incident response policy; procedures addressing incident reporting; incident response plan; system security plan; privacy plan; security incident reports and associated system vulnerabilities; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with incident reporting responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities; system/network administrators; personnel to whom vulnerabilities associated with security incidents are to be reported].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for incident reporting; mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the reporting of vulnerabilities associated with security incidents].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control IR-6 — see the IR-6(2) 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) (3)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)
  • Included: (1) (3)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for IR-6(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

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
  • system security plan
  • privacy plan

Testing

  • Organizational processes for incident reporting
  • mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the reporting of vulnerabilities associated with security incidents

Other Records

  • procedures addressing incident reporting
  • security incident reports and associated system vulnerabilities
  • other relevant documents or records