# NIST800 171 3.6.4 — Incident Response Training

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- Last updated: 2026-05-30
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NIST800 171 · Control 3.6.4 · Priority: high · Component: Incident Response

### What this control covers

This control mandates providing incident response training to system users based on their assigned roles and responsibilities. Training should be provided within a defined time period of assuming a role or acquiring system access, and periodically thereafter. The content should be reviewed and updated regularly, or after significant events like system changes, incidents, or regulatory updates. This control supports the Incident Response Training System capability within the Incident Response (3.6) family.

### Why it matters

How quickly and methodically you contain an incident determines the regulatory consequence — most fines are not for the breach itself but for the slow or absent response.

### How to implement

#### AWS

Wire **GuardDuty**, **Security Hub** and **Macie** findings into your ticketing/SIEM via EventBridge. Maintain documented playbooks for IAM-key compromise, EC2 instance compromise, S3 data exposure, and run **quarterly tabletop exercises**.

#### Azure

Use **Defender for Cloud** + **Microsoft Sentinel** with playbooks (Logic Apps) for automated containment — disable user, isolate VM (NSG), revoke session tokens. Keep an on-call rotation in Teams with PagerDuty.

#### GCP

**Org Policy Service** for guardrails and **Config Validator** in CI to pre-check Terraform plans against policy as code (Rego).

#### GitHub

Subscribe to **secret-scanning** alerts and **Dependabot** security advisories; require triage SLAs by severity. For exposed secrets, rotate at the cloud provider FIRST then revoke at GitHub — order matters.

#### On-premises

Roll out role-based security awareness annually + phishing simulations quarterly. Track completion in your LMS and tie to performance review for repeat-fails.

### Evidence to collect

-   `ticketing_workflow` — See the iCompaas Evidence library for the canonical source for this evidence type.

Workflow metrics (ServiceNow, Jira) show approvals and remediation. Focus: Incident Response Training.

### Quick checklist

-   Access — Management / Content
-   Response — Management / Content
-   Time — Management / Content
-   System — Management / Content
-   Incident — Management / Content
-   Security — Management / Content

### Related articles on this site

-   [NIST 800-171 3.14.3 Monitor system security alerts and advisories and take action in response.](https://support.icompaas.com/support/solutions/articles/62000229239-nist-800-171-3-14-3-monitor-system-security-alerts-and-advisories-and-take-action-in-response-)
-   [NIST 800-171 3.2.2 Ensure that personnel are trained to carry out their assigned information security-related duties and responsibilities.](https://support.icompaas.com/support/solutions/articles/62000229266-nist-800-171-3-2-2-ensure-that-personnel-are-trained-to-carry-out-their-assigned-information-security)
-   [CMMC 2.0 AT.2.057 Ensure that personnel are trained to carry out their assigned information security-related duties and responsibilities.](https://support.icompaas.com/support/solutions/articles/62000229423-cmmc-2-0-at-2-057-ensure-that-personnel-are-trained-to-carry-out-their-assigned-information-security-)
-   [CMMC 2.0 SI.2.214 Monitor system security alerts and advisories and take action in response.](https://support.icompaas.com/support/solutions/articles/62000229429-cmmc-2-0-si-2-214-monitor-system-security-alerts-and-advisories-and-take-action-in-response-)

## Related compliance guidance

- [NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC: a practical guide to protecting CUI in the cloud](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/nist-sp-800-171-rev-3): The CUI requirements CMMC Level 2 assesses, the SPRS score, POA&M rules and the phased DFARS rollout.
- [NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5: a practical implementation guide for cloud teams](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/nist-sp-800-53-rev-5): The federal catalogue 800-171 is derived from — useful when a contract also cites a FedRAMP baseline.