Incident Response
Incident Response is your plan for when something does go wrong: detecting it, containing it, and reporting it. This family asks for a real, tested capability, not a document nobody has ever used.
The 3 Incident Response requirements
14 assessment objectives across this family.
- 3.6.1Incident HandlingEstablish an operational incident-handling capability for organizational systems that includes preparation, detection, analysis, containment, recovery, and user response activities.5 pt✕ POA&M
- 3.6.2Incident ReportingTrack, document, and report incidents to designated officials and/or authorities both internal and external to the organization.5 pt✕ POA&M
- 3.6.3Incident Response TestingTest the organizational incident response capability.1 pt
Build Incident Response, and all 14 families, with an officer
The Level 2 workspace walks your team through all 110 requirements at the objective level, drafts your SSP section by section from your own record for your team to read and accept, gives a prime or your own internal auditor a read only seat on the same record, and a credentialed officer reviews every step.
Book a free advisory callNo credit card, and Level 1 and Level 2 are both open, so sign up for the level your contracts call for. Self assessed and self attested: you score yourself in SPRS on a three year cycle and your senior official affirms it every year. As of September 3, 2026 a class deviation directs contracting officers to remove third party assessment from contracts. The program rule still provides for it, so your solicitation sets the track. Your team builds the same evidence either way. DFARS 252.204-7012 is unaffected, and the NIST SP 800-171 Rev 2 baseline is unchanged.
Questions, answered
How many CMMC Level 2 requirements are in Incident Response?+
The Incident Response family (IR) has 3 of the 110 CMMC Level 2 requirements, assessed against 14 objectives from NIST SP 800-171A.
What is the Incident Response family about?+
Incident Response is your plan for when something does go wrong: detecting it, containing it, and reporting it. This family asks for a real, tested capability, not a document nobody has ever used.