id: "IR-04(08)" title: "Correlation with External Organizations" family: "IR" family_name: "Incident Response" sort_id: "ir-04.08" priority: "P2" implementation_level: "organization" parent: "IR-04" enhancement: True


Statement

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Guidance

The coordination of incident information with external organizations—including mission or business partners, military or coalition partners, customers, and developers—can provide significant benefits. Cross-organizational coordination can serve as an important risk management capability. This capability allows organizations to leverage information from a variety of sources to effectively respond to incidents and breaches that could potentially affect the organization’s operations, assets, and individuals.

Assessment Objective

there is coordination with {{ insert: param, ir-04.08_odp.01 }} to correlate and share {{ insert: param, ir-04.08_odp.02 }} to achieve a cross-organization perspective on incident awareness and more effective incident responses.

Incident response policy

procedures addressing incident handling

list of external organizations

records of incident handling coordination with external organizations

incident response plan

system security plan

privacy plan

other relevant documents or records

Organizational personnel with incident handling responsibilities

organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities

personnel from external organizations with whom incident response information is to be coordinated, shared, and correlated

Organizational processes for coordinating incident handling information with external organizations