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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Include the following in the Incident Response Plan for breaches involving personally identifiable information:

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Organizations may be required by law, regulation, or policy to follow specific procedures relating to breaches, including notice to individuals, affected organizations, and oversight bodies; standards of harm; and mitigation or other specific requirements.

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-8(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. the incident response plan for breaches involving personally identifiable information includes a process to determine if notice to individuals or other organizations, including oversight organizations, is needed;
  2. the incident response plan for breaches involving personally identifiable information includes an assessment process to determine the extent of the harm, embarrassment, inconvenience, or unfairness to affected individuals and any mechanisms to mitigate such harms;
  3. the incident response plan for breaches involving personally identifiable information includes the identification of applicable privacy requirements.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Incident response policy; procedures addressing incident response planning; incident response plan; system security plan; privacy plan; records of incident response plan reviews and approvals; other relevant documents or records].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with incident response planning responsibilities; organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational incident response plan and related organizational processes].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control IR-8 — see the IR-8(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)

HIGH

  • Base control: Included (matches standard baseline)

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for IR-8(1). 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
  • records of incident response plan reviews and approvals

Testing

  • Organizational incident response plan and related organizational processes

Other Records

  • procedures addressing incident response planning
  • other relevant documents or records