id: "IR-06(02)" title: "Vulnerabilities Related to Incidents" family: "IR" family_name: "Incident Response" sort_id: "ir-06.02" priority: "P2" implementation_level: "organization" parent: "IR-06" enhancement: True


Statement

Report system vulnerabilities associated with reported incidents to {{ insert: param, ir-06.02_odp }}.

Guidance

Reported incidents that uncover system vulnerabilities are analyzed by organizational personnel including system owners, mission and business owners, senior agency information security officers, senior agency officials for privacy, authorizing officials, and the risk executive (function). The analysis can serve to prioritize and initiate mitigation actions to address the discovered system vulnerability.

Assessment Objective

system vulnerabilities associated with reported incidents are reported to {{ insert: param, ir-06.02_odp }}.

Incident response policy

procedures addressing incident reporting

incident response plan

system security plan

privacy plan

security incident reports and associated system vulnerabilities

other relevant documents or records

Organizational personnel with incident reporting responsibilities

organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities

system/network administrators

personnel to whom vulnerabilities associated with security incidents are to be reported

Organizational processes for incident reporting

mechanisms supporting and/or implementing the reporting of vulnerabilities associated with security incidents