What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on IR-2 Incident Response Training?

Incident response policy; Procedures addressing incident response training; Incident response training curriculum; Incident response training materials; Privacy plan; Incident response plan.

What is the most common gap auditors find on IR-2?

Users acquiring system access or incident response roles were not trained within the organization-defined period, per a.1

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 · IR - Incident Response

`IR-2` Incident Response Training

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

Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, IR-2. 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.

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

Incident response training records · HR system / LMS

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

none for this control

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Incident response policy · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Procedures addressing incident response training · HR system / LMS
Incident response training curriculum · HR system / LMS
Incident response training materials · HR system / LMS
Privacy plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Incident response plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
System security plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Mostly documents and reviews. Pull the 1 system-held artefact from your HR system / LMS on a schedule; put the documents under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a dated record with a named reviewer.

Common gaps auditors find

Users acquiring system access or incident response roles were not trained within the organization-defined period, per a.1
Incident response training is the same for all users rather than tailored to assigned roles and responsibilities

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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