ARTIFACTS
IR: INCIDENT RESPONSE
What's On This Page
Each control family has a page dedicated to presenting all of the artifacts associated with the controls and control enhancements in that family. This is a consolidated view of the artifacts organized in a way to make the information usable. From here you can navigate to the individual control pages where the artifacts associated with each control or control enhancement are displayed with the control. You can use the Links Panels to select the individual controls or control enhancements you want to work with.
Supplement the artifacts here with other relevent documents and records dictated by your risk-based cybersecurity program and your information supply chain requirements.
The Source of the Artifacts
The control information comes from NIST Special Publication 800-53R4, Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizationsand Special Publication and NIST Special Publication 800-53AR4, Assessing Security and Privacy Controls in Federal Information Systems and Organizations Building Effective Assessment Plans. We've normalized the artifact names and annotated them with information useful in understanding these artifacts in the context of your digital enterprise, information supply chain, and security architecture.
Essential Artifacts for Risk-Based Cybersecurity Programs
This section includes core documents for risk-based cybersecurity; the POLICY & PROCEDURES document for Incident Response (IR); and documents that are widely used in the assessment of controls and control enhancements in the Incident Response (IR) family. Policy and Procedure documents from control families are in CAPS and identified with their two letter code.
| CORE ARTIFACTS | WIDELY USED ARTIFACTS FOR INCIDENT RESPONSE (IR) |
| INCIDENT RESPONSE POLICY & PROCEDURES (IR) |
| Incident response policy |
| Information system design documentation |
| Information system configuration settings and associated documentation |
| Information system audit records |
Security Authorization Package Documents:
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| ESSENTIALS |
| ACCESS CONTROL POLICY & PROCEDURES (AC) |
| Asset Inventory |
| AUDIT & ACCOUNTABILITY POLICY & PROCEDURES (AU) | Configuration Management Plan |
| CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT POLICY & PROCEDURES (CM) |
Contingency Plan
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| CONTINGENCY PLANNING POLICY & PROCEDURES (CP) |
| Continuous Monitoring Strategy |
| Continuous Monitoring Plan |
| Enterprise Architecture (EA) |
| IDENTIFICATION & AUTHENTICATION POLICY & PROCEDURES (IA) |
| INCIDENT RESPONSE POLICY & PROCEDURES (IR) |
| INFORMATION SECURITY PROGRAM PLAN (PM) |
| MEDIA PROTECTION POLICY & PROCEDURES (MP) |
| PERSONNEL SECURITY POLICY & PROCEDURES (PS) |
| PHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION POLICY & PROCEDURES (PE) |
| Privacy Impact Assessment |
| Privacy Program Plan |
| Risk Assessment |
| RISK ASSESSMENT POLICY & PROCEDURES (RA) |
| SECURITY ASSESSMENT & AUTHORIZATION POLICY & PROCEDURES (CA) |
| SECURITY AWARENESS AND TRAINING POLICY & PROCEDURES (AT) |
| Security Configurations |
| SECURITY PLANNING POLICY & PROCEDURES (PL) |
| SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION POLICY & PROCEDURES (SC) |
| SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY POLICY & PROCEDURES (SI) |
| SYSTEM AND SERVICES ACQUISITION POLICY & PROCEDURES (SA) |
| System Interconnection Agreements |
| SYSTEM MAINTENANCE POLICY & PROCEDURES (MA) |
Policy & Procedures
Here you'll find a catalog of Incident Response (IR) related policies and procedures for managing access to your digital enterprise and information supply chain. Select those that enable your risk-based cybersecurity program.
| POLICES & PROCEDURES | APPLICABLE CONTROL(S) |
| Contingency planning policy | IR-3 IR-3 (1) IR-3 (2) IR-4 |
| Incident response policy and procedures | IR-1 |
| Procedures addressing contingency plan testing | IR-3 |
| Procedures addressing contingency plan testing | IR-3 (1) |
| Procedures addressing incident handling | IR-4 IR-4 (1) IR-4 (2) IR-4 (3) IR-4 (4) IR-4 (5) IR-4 (6) IR-4 (7) IR-4 (8) IR-4 (9) IR-9 (3) IR-9 (4) |
| Procedures addressing incident monitoring | IR-5 (1) |
| Procedures addressing incident reporting | IR-6 IR-6 (1) IR-6 (2) |
| Procedures addressing incident response assistance | IR-7 IR-7 (1) IR-7 (2) |
| Procedures addressing incident response planning | IR-8 |
| Procedures addressing incident response planning and security analysis team integration | IR-10 |
| Procedures addressing incident response testing | IR-3 IR-3 (1) IR-3 (2) |
| Procedures addressing incident response training | IR-2 IR-2 (1) IR-2 (2) |
| Procedures addressing information spillage | IR-9 IR-9 (1) IR-9 (3) IR-9 (4) |
| Procedures addressing information spillage response training | IR-9 (2) |
| Procedures addressing supply chain coordination | IR-4 (10) IR-6 (3) |
Evidence, Records & Artifacts
Here you'll find a catalog of Incident Response (IR) related policies and procedures for managing access to your digital enterprise and information supply chain. Select those that enable your risk-based cybersecurity program.
| ARTIFACT | APPLICABLE CONTROL(S) |
| Incident response training materials | IR-2 IR-2 (1) IR-2 (2) |
| Incident response training records | IR-2 |
| Information spillage response training curriculum | IR-9 (2) |
| Information spillage response training materials | IR-9 (2) |
| Information spillage response training records | IR-9 (2) |
| Information system audit records | IR-4 (1) IR-4 (2) |
| Records of incident handling coordination with external organizations | IR-4 (8) |
| Records of incident response plan reviews and approvals | IR-8 |
| Records of information spillage alerts/notifications, list of personnel who should receive alerts of information spillage | IR-9 |
| Security incident reports and associated information system vulnerabilities | IR-6 (2) |
| Security information and event management logs | IR-4 (4) |
| Security information and event management reports | IR-4 (4) |
| Security safeguards regarding information spillage/exposure to unauthorized personnel | IR-9 (4) |
| Service-level agreements | IR-4 (10) IR-6 (3) |
Incident Response (IR) Related Lists
These are the Incident Response (IR) related lists you may need to support your security program. For the lists applicable to your systems and informations supply chain you should know the source of the list and the data it contains; how the lists are generated, where they are stored, and how they are maintained, and how to get the when you have an incident, an incident investigation or an audit.
| LIST | APPLICABLE CONTROL(S) |
| List of actions to be performed regarding information spillage | IR-9 |
| List of appropriate incident response actions | IR-4 (3) |
| List of classes of incidents | IR-4 (3) |
| List of external organizations | IR-4 (8) |
| List of personnel responsible for responding to information spillage | IR-9 (1) |
| List of system components to be dynamically reconfigured as part of incident response capability | IR-4 (2) |