Incident response plan drafted

Without a written incident response plan, a security breach becomes an improvised crisis: response teams disagree on escalation paths, evidence is destroyed before it is preserved, and affected users receive notifications too late to take protective action. NIST 800-53 rev5 IR-8 (Incident Response Plan) requires a documented, tested response plan; IR-4 (Incident Handling) requires detection, analysis, containment, and recovery procedures. CMMC 2.0 IR.L2-3.6.1 and FedRAMP rev5 IR-8 both make this a mandatory control. Most state breach notification laws impose 72-hour or shorter notification windows — a team with no rehearsed plan routinely misses them.

Create docs/incident-response-plan.md covering all six phases. Assign named roles — not just job titles — so every person knows their specific responsibilities during an incident.

# Incident Response Plan

## Reporting
- Internal: security@yourcompany.com (monitored 24/7)
- External: `/.well-known/security.txt` with Contact + Policy

## Detection
- Automated: error-rate spike alerts, failed-login threshold (>10/min), CloudWatch alarms
- Manual: user report → #security Slack channel → on-call engineer

## Investigation
1. Assign incident commander (on-call lead)
2. Preserve logs — take snapshots before any remediation
3. Determine scope: what data, which users, what timeframe

## Containment
1. Revoke compromised credentials via admin panel
2. Block attacker IP at WAF / hosting firewall
3. Roll back or disable affected feature flag

## Recovery
1. Restore from last clean backup
2. Verify integrity with checksum comparison
3. Re-enable service and monitor for 24h

## Communication
- Notify affected users within 72 hours (GDPR / CCPA requirement)
- Post status page update within 1 hour of confirmed incident