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NIST SP 800-61r3 Incident response and recovery implementation hub

Use these guides to implement NIST SP 800-61r3 as a modern incident-response capability: integrate incident response across all six CSF 2.0 Functions, manage incidents with explicit risk evaluation factors, preserve record and evidence integrity, coordinate notifications and information sharing, and execute recovery with declared end-state criteria.

Grounded to NIST SP 800-61r3, published April 2025 and approved March 25, 2025. Revision 3 supersedes SP 800-61r2 and replaces the old static lifecycle framing with a CSF 2.0 community-profile model centered on continuous improvement.

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Sorena AI
Published
Mar 4, 2026
Updated
Mar 4, 2026
What this artifact helps you do
Run incident response across CSF 2.0
Use Govern, Identify, and Protect for preparation, Detect, Respond, and Recover for active handling, and Identify Improvement for lessons learned.
Prioritize and manage incidents by risk
Use asset criticality, impact, scope, threat behavior, and recoverability to decide triage, escalation, and when recovery starts.
Preserve trustworthy response records
Protect the integrity and provenance of investigation actions, incident data, and recovery records so decisions are defensible later.
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Compliance playbook
How Rev. 3 reframes incident response as cybersecurity risk management.
Playbook template
A scenario-ready structure for triage, mitigation, communication, and recovery.
Severity and SLA model
How to convert NIST risk evaluation factors into prioritization and response timing.
SP 800-61r3 is strongest when the incident team, asset owners, leadership, legal, privacy, suppliers, and recovery teams operate from the same incident model.
Apr 2025
Published
CSF 2.0
Profile
RS plus RC
Integrated
Evidence
Preserved
Analyze
Communicate
Recover

Topic guides

Deep dive pages for implementation planning, controls, reporting, and evidence.

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NIST SP 800-61r3 Compliance Playbook | CSF 2.0 Incident Response
Grounded incident-response playbook for NIST SP 800-61r3 covering the CSF 2.0 community-profile model, roles, risk-based incident management, communications.
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2
NIST SP 800-61r3 FAQ | Practical Incident Response Questions
Practical FAQ on NIST SP 800-61r3 covering what changed from r2, incident declaration, risk evaluation factors, containment versus observation.
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3
NIST SP 800-61r3 Incident Response Playbook Template
Grounded incident-response playbook template based on NIST SP 800-61r3 with incident criteria, incident lead, risk evaluation factors, communications tracks.
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4
NIST SP 800-61r3 Severity Classification and SLA Model
Grounded severity and SLA model for NIST SP 800-61r3 using NIST risk evaluation factors such as asset criticality, impact, scope, threat behavior.
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5
NIST SP 800-61r3 vs ISO 27035 | Incident Response Comparison
Grounded comparison of NIST SP 800-61r3 and ISO 27035 covering the CSF 2.0 community-profile model, management-process structure, communications, recovery.
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