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NIST CSF 2.0 · RS - Respond

RS.MA-05 The criteria for initiating incident recovery are applied

The criteria for initiating incident recovery are applied

Source: NIST CSF 2.0, RS.MA-05. 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.

5
artefacts
1
held by a system
1
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 linking response to recovery handoff · SIEM / log platform

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Joint review by IR and recovery teams · Document repository

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

  • Recovery initiation criteria documented · Document repository
  • Tabletop coverage of the response to recovery boundary · Document repository
  • Closure of recovery initiation actions · 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

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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RS.MA-04 Incidents are escalated or elevated as needed · RS.MI-01 Incidents are contained