Cyber Posture

NIST 800-53 r5 · Controls catalogue · Family CP

CP-2Contingency Plan

Develop a contingency plan for the system that: Identifies essential mission and business functions and associated contingency requirements; Provides recovery objectives, restoration priorities, and metrics; Addresses contingency roles, responsibilities, assigned individuals with contact information; Addresses maintaining essential mission and business functions despite a system disruption, compromise, or failure; Addresses eventual, full system restoration without deterioration of the controls originally planned and implemented; Addresses the sharing of contingency information; and Is reviewed and approved by {{ insert: param, cp-2_prm_1 }}; Distribute copies of the contingency plan to {{ insert: param, cp-2_prm_2 }}; Coordinate contingency planning activities with incident handling activities; Review the contingency plan for the system {{ insert: param, cp-02_odp.05 }}; Update the contingency plan to address changes to the organization, system, or environment of operation and problems encountered during contingency plan implementation, execution, or testing; Communicate contingency plan changes to {{ insert: param, cp-2_prm_4 }}; Incorporate lessons learned from contingency plan testing, training, or actual contingency activities into contingency testing and training; and Protect the contingency plan from unauthorized disclosure and modification.

Last updated: 09 May 2026 03:25 UTC

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ATT&CK techniques this control mitigates (9)

Weaknesses this control addresses (3)AI

CWEs ranked by how often they appear in real CVEs. The rationale describes how this control reduces exploitability of each weakness class.

CWE Name CVEs Why this control addresses it
CWE-200Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor10,204Mandates protection of the contingency plan against unauthorized disclosure, reducing exposure of sensitive recovery and operational information.
CWE-284Improper Access Control4,832Requires protecting the contingency plan from unauthorized disclosure and modification, directly necessitating implementation of access controls on this critical document.
CWE-693Protection Mechanism Failure476Requires planning for full restoration without deterioration of originally implemented controls, mitigating impact from protection mechanism failures during compromise or disruption.

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