EvidenceSheet
NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · CP - Contingency Planning

CP-3 Contingency Training

a. Provide contingency training to system users consistent with assigned roles and responsibilities: 1. Within organization-defined time period of assuming a contingency role or responsibility; 2. When required by system changes; and 3. organization-defined frequency thereafter; and b. Review and update contingency training content organization-defined frequency and following organization-defined events.

Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, CP-3. 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 NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 in the compliance library.

Base controls and their enhancements. Which apply follows the baseline you are assessed against (for example FedRAMP Moderate or High, or the low, moderate and high baselines of SP 800-53B). Text in square brackets is a parameter your organisation sets.

8
artefacts
0
held by a system
2
at each review
hard
to go live
HR system / LMS
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

  • Contingency training records · HR system / LMS
  • Test of Organizational processes for contingency training · HR system / LMS

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Contingency planning policy · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Procedures addressing contingency training · HR system / LMS
  • Contingency plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Contingency training curriculum · HR system / LMS
  • Contingency training material · HR system / LMS
  • System security plan · 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

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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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