id: "IR-07(02)" title: "Coordination with External Providers" family: "IR" family_name: "Incident Response" sort_id: "ir-07.02" priority: "P2" implementation_level: "organization" parent: "IR-07" enhancement: True
Establish a direct, cooperative relationship between its incident response capability and external providers of system protection capability; and
Identify organizational incident response team members to the external providers.
Guidance
External providers of a system protection capability include the Computer Network Defense program within the U.S. Department of Defense. External providers help to protect, monitor, analyze, detect, and respond to unauthorized activity within organizational information systems and networks. It may be beneficial to have agreements in place with external providers to clarify the roles and responsibilities of each party before an incident occurs.
Assessment Objective: a direct, cooperative relationship is established between its incident response capability and external providers of the system protection capability;
Assessment Objective: organizational incident response team members are identified to the external providers.
Incident response policy
procedures addressing incident response assistance
incident response plan
system security plan
privacy plan
other relevant documents or records
Organizational personnel with incident response support and assistance responsibilities
external providers of system protection capability
organizational personnel with information security and privacy responsibilities