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id: "IR-02(03)" title: "Breach" family: "IR" family_name: "Incident Response" sort_id: "ir-02.03" priority: "P2" implementation_level: "organization" parent: "IR-02" enhancement: True

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Statement

Provide incident response training on how to identify and respond to a breach, including the organization’s process for reporting a breach.

Guidance

For federal agencies, an incident that involves personally identifiable information is considered a breach. A breach results in the loss of control, compromise, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized acquisition, or a similar occurrence where a person other than an authorized user accesses or potentially accesses personally identifiable information or an authorized user accesses or potentially accesses such information for other than authorized purposes. The incident response training emphasizes the obligation of individuals to report both confirmed and suspected breaches involving information in any medium or form, including paper, oral, and electronic. Incident response training includes tabletop exercises that simulate a breach. See IR-2(1).

Assessment Objective: incident response training on how to identify and respond to a breach is provided;

Assessment Objective: incident response training on the organization’s process for reporting a breach is provided.

Incident response policy

contingency planning policy

procedures addressing incident response testing

procedures addressing contingency plan testing

incident response testing material

incident response test results

incident response test plan

incident response plan

contingency plan

system security plan

privacy plan

other relevant documents or records

Organizational personnel with incident response training responsibilities

organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities