IR-4(4) Incident Handling | Information Correlation
Correlate incident information and individual incident responses to achieve an organization-wide perspective on incident awareness and response.
Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, IR-4(4). 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.
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 management correlation logs · SIEM / log platform
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Test of Organizational processes for correlating incident information and individual incident responses; mechanisms that support and or implement the correlation of incident response information with individual incident responses · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Incident response policy · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Procedures addressing incident handling · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Incident response plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Privacy plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Mechanisms supporting incident and event correlation · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- System design documentation · Document repository
- System configuration settings and associated documentation · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- System security plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Incident information from separate business units is not correlated to identify related or coordinated attacks
- No organization-wide view of incident awareness exists because individual incident responses are handled in isolation
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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