This requirement exists to assign clear authority, accountability, duties, and decision rights for incident response participants and to ensure security incidents are handled consistently, promptly, and with clear accountability.
Establish a documented process for assign clear authority, accountability, duties, and decision rights for incident response participants. Define accountable roles, inputs and outputs, decision criteria, approval or escalation points, timeframes where applicable, evidence requirements, monitoring, reporting, review, and exception handling. Integrate the process with security operations, risk management, business continuity, legal, compliance, communications, and technology operations as appropriate.
| FRAMEWORK CODE | FRAMEWORK NAME & DETAILS | FAMILY / CATEGORY | VERSION | ACTION |
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| CERT-IN | CERT-In Directions The CERT-In Directions issued under India’s Inform... Clause: Direction (iii) – CERT-In information requests/directions and designated Point of Contact (PoC) Annexure II – Format for providing Point of Contact (PoC) information to CERT-In |
India
Direction
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| CIS-V8 | CIS Controls CIS Controls are a prioritized set of cybersecurit... Clause: Control 17 – Incident Response Management: 17.1 – Designate Personnel to Manage Incident Handling; 17.6 – Define Mechanisms for Communicating During Incident Response |
CIS
Best Practice
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| COBIT2019 | COBIT COBIT is an enterprise governance and management f... Clause: 4.4 – Deliver, Service and Support (DSS) > DSS04 – Managed Continuity > DSS04.03 – Develop and implement a business continuity response. 4.4 – Deliver, Service and Support (DSS) > DSS04 – Managed Continuity > DSS04.06 – Conduct continuity plan training. |
COBIT
Governance Framework
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| DORA | Digital Operational Resilience Act The EU Digital Operational Resilience Act establis... Clause: Article 17(1) – ICT-related incident management process to detect, manage and notify incidents Article 11(2)(b) – Response and resolution of ICT-related incidents and prioritisation of recovery Article 11(2)(c) – Containment measures and response/recovery procedures for ICT incidents |
EU
Regulation
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| IRDAI | IRDAI Information & Cyber Security Guidelines IRDAI information and cyber-security requirements... Clause: §1.6-3 – Chief Information Security Officer (CISO); §1.6 – Security Operations Center (SOC) |
India
Guideline
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| ISO22301 | ISO/IEC 22301 ISO 22301 specifies requirements for a Business Co... Clause: 8.4.1 – General; 8.4.2 – Response structure; 8.4.5 – Recovery |
ISO
Standard
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| ISO27001 | ISO/IEC 27001 ISO/IEC 27001 specifies auditable requirements for... Clause: 5.3 – Organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities |
ISO
Standard
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| ISO27002 | ISO/IEC 27002 ISO/IEC 27002 is a guidance standard containing a... Clause: 5.26 – Response to information security incidents |
ISO
Standard
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| NIS2 | NIS2 Directive The NIS2 Directive establishes EU-wide cybersecuri... Clause: Article 21(2)(b) – Incident handling |
EU
Directive
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| NIST-CSF | NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides high-lev... Clause: GV.RR – Roles, Responsibilities, and Authorities | GV.RR-02 – Roles, responsibilities, and authorities related to cybersecurity risk management are established, communicated, understood, and enforced |
NIST
Framework
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| NIST80053 | NIST SP 800-53 NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 presents control families, i... Clause: 3.8 – INCIDENT RESPONSE; IR-1 – POLICY AND PROCEDURES |
NIST
Control Catalog
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| NPCI-ISR | NPCI Information Security Requirements NPCI information-security requirements define cont... Clause: Governance Controls; Governance and Oversight Structure – Roles and Responsibilities |
India
Standard
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| PCI-DSS | PCI DSS PCI DSS is an industry security standard maintaine... Clause: 12.10.1 – An incident response plan exists and is; 12.10.2 – At least once every 12 months, the security; 12.10.3 – Specific personnel are designated to be; 12.10.4 – Personnel responsible for responding to; 12.10.5 – The security incident response plan; 12.10.6 – The security incident response plan is; 12.10.7 – Incident response procedures are in place, |
PCI
Standard
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| RBI-CSF | RBI Cyber Security Framework / Master Directions RBI cyber-security requirements and directions set... Clause: 19) Incident Response & Management – 19.1 Board/Top Management-approved incident response programme; 19) Incident Response & Management – 19.2 Written incident-response procedures, roles, scenarios, situational awareness and stakeholder coordination |
India
Regulation
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| SEBI-CSCRF | SEBI Cyber Security & Cyber Resilience Framework SEBI’s Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience Framewor... Clause: 5.1 RS.MA: Incident Management; 5.2 RS.CO: Incident Response Reporting and Communication |
India
Regulation
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| SOC2 | SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria SOC 2 is an independent examination and reporting... Clause: CC7.4 – System Operations – The entity responds to identified security incidents by executing a defined incident-response program to understand, contain, remediate, and communicate security incidents, as appropriate. CC1.3 – Control Environment – COSO Principle 3: Management establishes, with board oversight, structures, reporting lines, and appropriate authorities and responsibilities in the pursuit of objectives. |
AICPA
Audit Framework
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