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NSM ICT Security Principles (Norway)
4.1.1: Establish plans for incident management

Requirement description

Establish plans for incident management which meet the need for business continuity at times of preparedness and crisis. This should include a) a set of requirements for restoring ICT functions, ICT services and ICT systems based on an analysis of the consequences for the organisation (BIA – business impact analysis), b) a description of roles and responsibilities for relevant personnel, c) required training of relevant personnel, d) categorization regime for incidents and threshold values for activating the crisis management team, e) requirements for testing and exercising plans and personnel. f) Revise and update plans regularly, at least once a year and after an exercise, major incident or attack.

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NSM ICT Security Principles (Norway)

4.1.1: Establish plans for incident management

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Priority
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Theme
Policy
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Designation of an incident management team
Critical
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Incident management
Incident management and response
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Designation of an incident management team
1. Task description

The organization shall ensure that clear persons are assigned to incident management responsibilities, e.g. handling the first response for incidents.

Incident management personnel need to be instructed and trained to understand the organization's priorities in dealing with security incidents.

Creating and maintaining incident response plans
Critical
High
Normal
Low
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Incident management
Incident management and response
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Creating and maintaining incident response plans
1. Task description

The organization should create and maintain incident response plans. The response plans should include at least:

  • Incident or the type of incident for which the plan has been made
  • Goal for plan
  • Responsible persons and related stakeholders and contact information
  • Planned immediate actions
  • Planned next steps

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