How many SPRS points can the Incident Response family cost?

Up to 11 of the 313 points a score can lose: 2 worth 5 points and 1 worth 1.

Which Incident Response requirements can go on a CMMC POA&M?

1 of the 3: 3.6.3, worth 1 point. The others are worth more than 1 point, which 32 CFR 170.21(a)(2)(ii) does not admit. The score must also be at least 88.

NIST 800-171 3.6 Incident Response

Incident Response requires a working capability to handle incidents from preparation to recovery, a record of every incident with reports to the right people, and regular tests of that capability.

3 requirementsup to 11 SPRS points1 can go on a CMMC POA&MPublished 2026-11-11

The 3 Incident Response requirements

3.6.1 Incident HandlingIR.L2-3.6.1Establish an operational incident-handling capability for organizational systems that includes preparation, detection, analysis, containment, recovery, and user response activities.5 points
3.6.2 Incident ReportingIR.L2-3.6.2Track, document, and report incidents to designated officials and/or authorities both internal and external to the organization.5 points
3.6.3 Incident Response TestingIR.L2-3.6.3Test the organizational incident response capability.1 point

Incident Response: points and the CMMC POA&M

Q-01
How many SPRS points can the Incident Response family cost?
Up to 11 of the 313 points a score can lose: 2 worth 5 points and 1 worth 1.
Q-02
Which Incident Response requirements can go on a CMMC POA&M?
1 of the 3: 3.6.3, worth 1 point. The others are worth more than 1 point, which 32 CFR 170.21(a)(2)(ii) does not admit. The score must also be at least 88.

Related pages

Calculator: SPRS score calculator: mark the Incident Response requirements and see what they cost.
Sample package: Sample package: an SSP, a POA&M and an evidence chain the product generated from demonstration data.
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All requirements: All 110 NIST SP 800-171 requirements, by family.

Related records

Guides and articles describe the work. The evidence that work produces is described in three proof pages, the architecture page, and the two pages on authorization.

proof.state: Proof of State. What the environment was, as of a date someone else picks: point-in-time records, content hashed and chained.
proof.change: Proof of Change. Who or what altered the environment, under what authority, with before and after state hashes.
proof.agency: Proof of Agency. What a machine was permitted to do before it acted, what it did, and what would have stopped it.
architecture: Architecture. How the chain is built and where the evidence is stored in each delivery mode.
authorization: Continuous ATO. How an authorizing official's decision is recorded with its package, and how the authorized system is checked against it every hour.
baseline: NIST SP 800-53. The Low, Moderate and High baselines as evidence, with the SSP, SAR and POA&M generated from one record.