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NIST SP 800-61 Rev. 3 (Initial Public Draft)

Incident Response Recommendations and Considerations for Cybersecurity Risk Management: A CSF 2.0 Community Profile

Date Published: April 3, 2024
Comments Due: May 20, 2024
Email Comments to: 800-61-comments@nist.gov

Author(s)

Alexander Nelson (NIST), Sanjay Rekhi (NIST), Murugiah Souppaya (NIST), Karen Scarfone (Scarfone Cybersecurity)

Announcement

Incident response is a critical part of cybersecurity risk management and should be integrated across organizational operations. The six Functions of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 all play vital roles in incident response.

NIST is releasing the initial public draft of Special Publication (SP) 800-61r3 (Revision 3), Incident Response Recommendations and Considerations for Cybersecurity Risk Management: A CSF 2.0 Community Profile, for public comment. This publication seeks to assist organizations with incorporating cybersecurity incident response recommendations and considerations throughout their cybersecurity risk management activities, as described by CSF 2.0. Doing so can help organizations prepare for incident responses, reduce the number and impact of incidents that occur, and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their incident detection, response, and recovery activities.

The public comment period is open through May 20, 2024.

Readers are encouraged to utilize online resources on NIST’s new Incident Response project page in conjunction with this document to access additional information on implementing these recommendations and considerations. 

NOTE: A call for patent claims is included on page iii of this draft. For additional information, see the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Patent Policy Inclusion of Patents in ITL Publications.

Abstract

Keywords

cyber threat information sharing; Cybersecurity Framework; cybersecurity incident; cybersecurity risk management; incident handling; incident management; incident response
Control Families

Incident Response; System and Information Integrity

Documentation

Publication:
https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-61r3.ipd
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Supplemental Material:
Incident Response project

Document History:
04/03/24: SP 800-61 Rev. 3 (Draft)