What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on RC.RP-02 Recovery actions are selected, scoped, prioritized, and performed?

Recovery prioritization criteria; Decision log capturing scope and sequencing; Recovery sequencing diagrams for critical services; Resource allocation records during recovery; Stakeholder sign off on prioritization.

What is the most common gap auditors find on RC.RP-02?

Criteria not used under pressure

NIST CSF 2.0 · RC - Recover

`RC.RP-02` Recovery actions are selected, scoped, prioritized, and performed

Recovery actions are selected, scoped, prioritized, and performed

Source: NIST CSF 2.0, RC.RP-02. 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 CSF 2.0 in the compliance library.

artefacts

held by a system

at each review

hard

to go live

Document repository

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

Decision log capturing scope and sequencing · SIEM / log platform

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

Resource allocation records during recovery · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

Recovery prioritization criteria · Document repository
Recovery sequencing diagrams for critical services · Document repository
Stakeholder sign off on prioritization · Document repository

First move

Mostly documents and reviews. Pull the 1 system-held artefact from your SIEM / log platform 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

Criteria not used under pressure
Sequencing diagrams outdated
Resource decisions ad hoc
Sign off skipped

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.

Build my evidence sheet

RC.RP-01 The recovery portion of the incident response plan is executed once initiated from the incident response… · RC.RP-03 The integrity of backups and other restoration assets is verified before using them for restoration