IR-4(8)

Requirement

Coordinate with [Assignment: organization-defined external organizations] to correlate and share [Assignment: organization-defined incident information] to achieve a cross-organization perspective on incident awareness and more effective incident responses.

Discussion

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.

NIST 800-53A Assessment Guidance

Examine

[SELECT FROM: 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].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: 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].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational processes for coordinating incident handling information with external organizations].

ID	Assessment Objectives
IR-04(08)	there is coordination with <IR-04(08)_ODP[01] external organizations> to correlate and share <IR-04(08)_ODP[02] incident information> to achieve a cross-organization perspective on incident awareness and more effective incident responses.

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