Plan Testing
What is Plan Testing?
Exercises conducted to validate the effectiveness and completeness of security, continuity, and recovery plans through simulated scenarios.
Terms that appear alongside plan testing
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as plan testing. The number is how many controls name both.
- contingency plan 4 shared controls
- system recovery 3 shared controls
- incident response 3 shared controls
- incident reporting 2 shared controls
- cisa 2 shared controls
- lessons learned 2 shared controls
- post incident review 2 shared controls
- nist 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern plan testing
What the standards actually require on plan testing
Requirements naming plan testing across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Test contingency plan at least annually (FedRAMP) using FedRAMP-defined tests; review test results.
CP-4 · Contingency Plan Testing →Test contingency plan at least annually (FedRAMP) using FedRAMP-defined tests; review test results.
CP-4 · Contingency Plan Testing →Tests the supply chain elements of the contingency plan, including whether alternate sources can actually deliver.
161R1-CP-4 · Contingency Plan Testing →Requires the contingency plan to be tested at a defined frequency using defined test types to establish that the plan works and that people are ready to execute it, the test results to be reviewed, and corrective action to be initiated where the test shows it...
NIST800-CP-4 · Contingency plan testing →Test contingency plan at least annually (FedRAMP) using FedRAMP-defined tests; review test results.
CP-4 · Contingency Plan Testing →Test contingency plan at least annually (FedRAMP) using FedRAMP-defined tests; review test results.
CP-4 · Contingency Plan Testing →Questions people ask about plan testing
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