Incident Response Training IR-2

Incident Response · Low baseline ✗ Not implemented

Status — program-wide

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Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev.5, Incident Response family NIST SP 800-53 Rev.5. The baseline shows the lowest SP 800-53B baseline (Low / Moderate / High) this control appears in NIST SP 800-53B.

Control guide — plain-English, per NIST SP 800-53

IR-2 (Incident Response Training) makes sure the people with a part to play in incident response actually know how to play it. Training is tied to a person's role: it happens when they take on the role or gain access, again when systems change, and on a repeating schedule after that. The content itself gets reviewed and refreshed over time. It is a Low-baseline control.

What good looks like

Train people according to their role — the person who triages alerts needs different training from the person who approves a shutdown.
Deliver training when someone joins the role or first gets access, not months later.
Re-train when the system changes in a way that affects how incidents are handled.
Repeat training on a set schedule so skills do not go stale.
Review and refresh the training content itself so it still matches the real environment and real threats.

Framework mapping

NIST CSF 2.0 — PR.IR-03 — Mechanisms are implemented to achieve resilience requirements in normal and adverse situations

How to move it toward Implemented

Write a short incident response training brief for this server: how to spot an incident, where to look (journalctl -p err, /var/log/auth.log), and how to report it.
Record who was trained and when in a dated log, tied to each person's role.
Set a refresh date (for example, annually) and a reminder to re-train after major changes.
Attach the training brief and the dated training record as hardening evidence on the asset, naming IR-2 in the Requirement field — that moves it from ‘To assess’ toward ‘Completed’.