ISO/IEC 27035-2:2023
Information technology — Information security incident management — Part 2: Guidelines to plan and prepare for incident response
This document provides guidelines to plan and prepare for incident response and to learn lessons from incident response. The guidelines are based on the “plan and prepare” and “learn lessons” phases of the information security incident management phases model presented in ISO/IEC 27035-1:2023, 5.2 and 5.6.
The major points within the “plan and prepare” phase include:
— information security incident management policy and commitment of top management;
— information security policies, including those relating to risk management, updated at both organizational level and system, service and network levels;
— information security incident management plan;
— Incident Management Team (IMT) establishment;
— establishing relationships and connections with internal and external organizations;
— technical and other support (including organizational a...
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Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms
3.1 Terms and definitions
3.2 Abbreviated terms
4 Information security incident management policy
4.1 General
4.2 Interested parties
4.3 Information security incident management policy content
5 Updating of information security policies
5.1 General
5.2 Linking of policy documents
6 Creating information security incident management plan
6.1 General
6.2 Information security incident management plan built on consensus
6.3 Interested parties
6.4 Information security incident management plan content
6.5 Incident classification scale
6.6 Incident forms
6.7 Documented processes and procedures
6.8 Trust and confidence
6.9 Handling confidential or sensitive information
7 Establishing an incident management capability
7.1 General
7.2 Incident management team establishment
7.2.1 IMT structure
7.2.2 IMT roles and responsibilities
7.3 Incident response team establishment
7.3.1 IRT structure
7.3.2 IRT types and roles
7.3.3 IRT staff competencies
8 Establishing internal and external relationships
8.1 General
8.2 Relationship with other parts of the organization
8.3 Relationship with external interested parties
9 Defining technical and other support
9.1 General
9.2 Technical support
9.3 Other support
10 Creating information security incident awareness and training
11 Testing the information security incident management plan
11.1 General
11.2 Exercise
11.2.1 Defining the goal of the exercise
11.2.2 Defining the scope of an exercise
11.2.3 Conducting an exercise
11.3 Incident response capability monitoring
11.3.1 Implementing an incident response capability monitoring programme
11.3.2 Metrics and governance of incident response capability monitoring
12 Learn lessons
12.1 General
12.2 Identifying areas for improvement
12.3 Identifying and making improvements to the information security incident management plan
12.4 IMT evaluation
12.5 Identifying and making improvements to information security control implementation
12.6 Identifying and making improvements to information security risk assessment and management review results
12.7 Other improvements
Annex A (informative) Considerations related to legal or regulatory requirements
Annex B (informative) Example forms for information security events, incidents and vulnerability reports
Annex C (informative) Example approaches to the categorization, evaluation and prioritization of information security events and incidents
Bibliography
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Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms
3.1 Terms and definitions
3.2 Abbreviated terms
4 Information security incident management policy
4.1 General
4.2 Interested parties
4.3 Information security incident management policy content
5 Updating of information security policies
5.1 General
5.2 Linking of policy documents
6 Creating information security incident management plan
6.1 General
6.2 Information security incident management plan built on consensus
6.3 Interested parties
6.4 Information security incident management plan content
6.5 Incident classification scale
6.6 Incident forms
6.7 Documented processes and procedures
6.8 Trust and confidence
6.9 Handling confidential or sensitive information
7 Establishing an incident management capability
7.1 General
7.2 Incident management team establishment
7.2.1 IMT structure
7.2.2 IMT roles and responsibilities
7.3 Incident response team establishment
7.3.1 IRT structure
7.3.2 IRT types and roles
7.3.3 IRT staff competencies
8 Establishing internal and external relationships
8.1 General
8.2 Relationship with other parts of the organization
8.3 Relationship with external interested parties
9 Defining technical and other support
9.1 General
9.2 Technical support
9.3 Other support
10 Creating information security incident awareness and training
11 Testing the information security incident management plan
11.1 General
11.2 Exercise
11.2.1 Defining the goal of the exercise
11.2.2 Defining the scope of an exercise
11.2.3 Conducting an exercise
11.3 Incident response capability monitoring
11.3.1 Implementing an incident response capability monitoring programme
11.3.2 Metrics and governance of incident response capability monitoring
12 Learn lessons
12.1 General
12.2 Identifying areas for improvement
12.3 Identifying and making improvements to the information security incident management plan
12.4 IMT evaluation
12.5 Identifying and making improvements to information security control implementation
12.6 Identifying and making improvements to information security risk assessment and management review results
12.7 Other improvements
Annex A (informative) Considerations related to legal or regulatory requirements
Annex B (informative) Example forms for information security events, incidents and vulnerability reports
Annex C (informative) Example approaches to the categorization, evaluation and prioritization of information security events and incidents
Bibliography