Establish an incident response plan

Milestone recommends you start with a set of policies and procedures and establish an incident response plan. Designate staff to monitor the status of the system and respond to suspicious events. For example, activities that happen at unusual times. Establish a security Point of Contact (POC) with each of your vendors, including Milestone.

The following image is adapted from the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (http://www.nist.gov/cyberframework/). It shows the lifecycle that needs to be considered when creating a plan. The supporting material in the framework provide details about the lifecycle and security controls for incident response plans.

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The following control(s) provide additional guidance:

• NIST SP 800-53 IR 1-13 Incident Response