What is the most common gap auditors find on RC.RP-06?

End of recovery declared informally

`RC.RP-06` The end of incident recovery is declared based on criteria, and incident-related documentation is completed

Q: What evidence do auditors commonly ask for on RC.RP-06 The end of incident recovery is declared based on criteria, and incident-related documentation is completed?

End of recovery criteria document; Sign off records from business owners; Recovery closure communications; Transition to steady state operations plan; Lessons learned scheduled and conducted.

The end of incident recovery is declared based on criteria, and incident-related documentation is completed

Source: NIST CSF 2.0, RC.RP-06. 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

none for this control

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

Sign off records from business owners · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

End of recovery criteria document · Document repository
Recovery closure communications · Document repository
Transition to steady state operations plan · Policy repository / GRC workspace
Lessons learned scheduled and conducted · Document repository

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

End of recovery declared informally
Business owners not consulted
Transition plan absent
Lessons learned never scheduled

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-05 The integrity of restored assets is verified, systems and services are restored, and normal operating status… · RS.AN-03 Analysis is performed to establish what has taken place during an incident and the root cause of the incident