What this requirement asks
Track, document, and report incidents to designated officials and/or authorities both internal and external to the organization.
This is a CMMC Level 2 requirement in the Incident Response family, drawn from NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2. An assessor evaluates it objective by objective — every objective below must be supported by evidence, not just described in a policy.
Assessment objectives (6)
- 3.6.2[a] — incidents are tracked
- 3.6.2[b] — incidents are documented
- 3.6.2[c] — authorities to whom incidents are to be reported are identified
- 3.6.2[d] — organizational officials to whom incidents are to be reported are identified
- 3.6.2[e] — identified authorities are notified of incidents
- 3.6.2[f] — identified organizational officials are notified of incidents
What an assessor examines
Examine:
- Incident response policy
- procedures addressing incident monitoring
- incident response records and documentation
- procedures addressing incident reporting
- incident reporting records and documentation
- incident response plan
- system security plan
- other relevant documents or records
Interview:
- Personnel with incident monitoring responsibilities
- personnel with incident reporting responsibilities
- personnel who have or should have reported incidents
- personnel (authorities) to whom incident information is to be reported
- personnel with information security responsibilities
Test:
- Incident monitoring capability for the organization
- mechanisms supporting or implementing tracking and documenting of system security incidents
- organizational processes for incident reporting
- mechanisms supporting or implementing incident reporting
Evidence that defends it
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Check your readiness
Score this requirement against your own environment with the Level 2 self-assessment checklist, or estimate your SPRS score with the free CMMC compliance tool. Self-reported answers are planning signals only — they do not establish a verified or assessor-accepted result.