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SEF-04: Incident Response Testing
Incident Response Testing
SEF-04: Is the security incident response plan tested and updated for effectiveness, as necessary, at planned intervals or upon significant organizational or environmental changes?

Periodically test, update, and verify the effectiveness of incident response plans using various event scenarios. For critical operations, plans should be tested at least annually. Test results should be documented and communicated—with follow-up action plans developed as appropriate.


Incident response plans should be reconciled with the organization's business continuity and disaster recovery plans.


Organizations should also test, update, and improve incident response plans after:
a. Significant organizational changes.
b. External supply chain disruptions and natural disasters.
c. Security attacks, particularly those resulting in security breaches.


Not applicable - A “N/A” answer indicates that the portion of the control in question is out of scope of the assessment. The “SSRM control ownership” column is to be left blank (e.g., greyed out), and optionally the CSP may explain why it is the case (“CSP Implementation Description”).
No - A “No” answer indicates that the portion of the control in question is not implemented, while in scope of the assessment. The CSP has to assign the implementation responsibility of the control to the relevant party under column “SSRM control ownership”, and optionally elaborate on the “why” (has not been implemented), and “what” has to be done for its implementation by that party.
Yes - A “Yes” answer indicates that the portion of the control in question is implemented. The CSP indicates the responsible and accountable parties (SSRM control ownership), and optionally elaborates on the implementation “how-to” per relevant party CSP and/or CSC.
CSP-owned - The CSP is entirely responsible and accountable for the CCM control implementation.
CSC-owned - The Cloud Service Customer (CSC) is entirely responsible and accountable for the CCM control implementation.
Third-party - The third-party CSP in the supply chain (e.g., an IaaS provider) is responsible for CCM control implementation, while the CSP is fully accountable.
Shared CSP and CSC - Both the CSP and CSC share CCM control implementation responsibility and accountability.
Shared CSP and third party - Any CCM control implementation responsibility is shared between CSP and the third party, but the CSP remains fully accountable.
Description

Test and update as necessary incident response plans at planned intervals or upon significant organizational or environmental changes for effectiveness.