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

IR-8(1) Incident Response Plan | Breaches

Include the following in the Incident Response Plan for breaches involving personally identifiable information: (a) A process to determine if notice to individuals or other organizations, including oversight organizations, is needed; (b) An assessment process to determine the extent of the harm, embarrassment, inconvenience, or unfairness to affected individuals and any mechanisms to mitigate such harms; and (c) Identification of applicable privacy requirements.

Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, IR-8(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 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.

7
artefacts
2
held by a system
0
at each review
moderate
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

  • Records of incident response plan reviews and approvals · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Test of Organizational incident response plan and related organizational processes · Policy repository / GRC workspace

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 planning · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Incident response plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • System security plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
  • Privacy plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace

First move

Start with the 2 of 7 artefacts that already live in a system (Policy repository / GRC workspace); keep the periodic reviews but log each one as a dated record with a named reviewer.

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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