What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on IR.L2-3.6.1 Incident Handling?

Incident response plan covering all named lifecycle activities; Assigned incident response roles and contact details; Records of handled incidents showing the lifecycle applied.

What is the most common gap auditors find on IR.L2-3.6.1?

Plan covers detection and containment but omits recovery or user response

CMMC 2.0 · Incident Response

`IR.L2-3.6.1` Incident Handling

Operate an incident handling capability covering preparation, detection, analysis, containment, recovery and user response.

Source: CMMC 2.0, IR.L2-3.6.1. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open CMMC 2.0 in the compliance library.

artefacts

held by a system

at each review

hard

to go live

Policy repository / GRC workspace

where the evidence lives

teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

none for this control

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

Records of handled incidents showing the lifecycle applied · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Incident response plan covering all named lifecycle activities · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Assigned incident response roles and contact details · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

No system holds this evidence for you: it is people and documents. Reminders and routing to the owner still save time. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date.

Common gaps auditors find

Plan covers detection and containment but omits recovery or user response
Capability documented with no assigned or trained personnel
No records demonstrating the plan is actually used

Do this for your whole sheet

Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.

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IA.L2-3.5.11 Obscure Feedback · IR.L2-3.6.2 Incident Reporting