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NIST 800-171 · Incident Response

Requirement 3.6.1

SPRS weight
SPRS weight: 5
POA&M eligibility
Not POA&M-eligible
Assessment objectives
7 assessment objectives

Official requirement text

Establish an operational incident-handling capability for organizational systems that includes preparation, detection, analysis, containment, recovery, and user response activities.

Assessment objectives

Assessors don’t evaluate the requirement as one sentence; they walk these objectives one by one. Each must be met for the requirement to score.

  1. 3.6.1[a]an operational incident-handling capability is established.
  2. 3.6.1[b]the operational incident-handling capability includes preparation.
  3. 3.6.1[c]the operational incident-handling capability includes detection.
  4. 3.6.1[d]the operational incident-handling capability includes analysis.
  5. 3.6.1[e]the operational incident-handling capability includes containment.
  6. 3.6.1[f]the operational incident-handling capability includes recovery.
  7. 3.6.1[g]the operational incident-handling capability includes user response activities.

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