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Incident Response (IR)

The Incident Response family has 9 active controls in SP 800-53 release 5.2.0. “Yes” marks membership in the SP 800-53B baselines.

ControlTitleLowModerateHighPrivacy
IR-1Policy and ProceduresYesYesYesYes
IR-2Incident Response TrainingYesYesYesYes
IR-3Incident Response TestingYesYesYes
IR-4Incident HandlingYesYesYesYes
IR-5Incident MonitoringYesYesYesYes
IR-6Incident ReportingYesYesYesYes
IR-7Incident Response AssistanceYesYesYesYes
IR-8Incident Response PlanYesYesYesYes
IR-9Information Spillage Response

Withdrawn controls: IR-10.

Independent guidance, not an official NIST publication. Control text is from NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 and SP 800-53A (public domain). Original content is licensed CC BY 4.0; program templates and the downloadable kit are dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0.