Incident Response Policy — drafted from your organisation profile
How your organisation identifies, contains, eradicates, recovers from, and learns from security incidents. Includes legal-notification timelines for UK GDPR, HIPAA, and other regimes.
Standards assurance
What this policy covers in plain English
How your organisation identifies, contains, eradicates, recovers from, and learns from security incidents. Includes legal-notification timelines for UK GDPR, HIPAA, and other regimes.
- • Incident classification scheme and severity matrix
- • Roles: Incident Manager, Technical Lead, Comms Lead, Legal/DPO
- • Containment, eradication, and recovery steps
- • Notification timelines — UK GDPR (72h to ICO), HIPAA (60d), customer DPAs
- • Post-incident review and lessons-learned tracking
Policy facts
Category: INCIDENT_RESPONSE
Mapped controls: 34
Frameworks: ISO_27001, SOC2, GDPR, NIST_CSF, HIPAA, PCI_DSS
Who needs this policy
Required by ISO 27001 A.5.24, NIST CSF Respond/Recover, PCI DSS Req 12, and HIPAA Security Rule. Any organisation handling sensitive data should have this.
- • Incident classification scheme and severity matrix
- • Roles: Incident Manager, Technical Lead, Comms Lead, Legal/DPO
- • Containment, eradication, and recovery steps
- • Notification timelines — UK GDPR (72h to ICO), HIPAA (60d), customer DPAs
- • Post-incident review and lessons-learned tracking
How Quick Policy drafts this for you
AI-drafted from your organisation profile, with mapped controls and evidence requirements baked in.
- • Drafted from your sector, size, and jurisdiction
- • Linked to the relevant baseline controls
- • Review against ISO 27001, SOC 2, and UK GDPR
- • Publishing and PDFs unlock after you choose a plan
Mapped to 34 baseline controls
Browse all controls →ISO27001-A5.1
Information Security Policy Framework
ISO_27001
ISO27001-A5.15
Access Control
ISO_27001
ISO27001-A5.24
Incident Management Planning
ISO_27001
ISO27001-A5.30
ICT Readiness for Business Continuity
ISO_27001
ISO27001-A6.3
Security Awareness and Training
ISO_27001
ISO27001-A8.12
Data Leakage Prevention
ISO_27001
SOC2-CC1.1
Control Environment and Integrity
SOC2
SOC2-CC2.1
Information and Communication
SOC2
SOC2-CC6.1
Logical Access Security
SOC2
Recommended evidence to maintain
Who needs this policy
Required by ISO 27001 A.5.24, NIST CSF Respond/Recover, PCI DSS Req 12, and HIPAA Security Rule. Any organisation handling sensitive data should have this.
How Quick Policy operationalises the Incident Response Policy
AI drafts this from your organisation profile. Review it against ISO 27001, SOC 2, and UK GDPR before you publish.
Capture Core Profile
Admins complete adaptive onboarding to establish operating model, risk posture, and compliance objectives.
Determine Applicable Standards
Standards applicability ranks obligations by industry, geography, services, and data profile.
Generate and Harmonise Policy
Three-pass generation drafts, repairs contradictions, and validates coverage before reviewer handoff.
Review, Approve, and Sign Off
Approvers validate policy language, mappings, and obligations, then publish through a sign-off chain that tracks every person against every policy on one exportable compliance matrix.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Incident Response Policy ready for audit?
Each draft is generated from your organisation profile and mapped to the controls and frameworks that apply. First-run is a review of the drafts; publishing and PDFs unlock after you choose a plan.
How is this policy kept current?
You review and edit the draft before anything is published. Change monitoring and scheduled reviews exist in the product and will surface as they land — they are not first-run today.
Can we tailor the policy to our organisation?
Yes — every section is editable, and the AI drafting engine pre-fills organisation-specific context (jurisdiction, sector, size, key systems) before you start.
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Incident Response Policy FAQs
Is the Incident Response Policy ready for audit?
Each draft is generated from your organisation profile and mapped to the controls and frameworks that apply. First-run is a review of the drafts; publishing and PDFs unlock after you choose a plan.
How is this policy kept current?
You review and edit the draft before anything is published. Change monitoring and scheduled reviews exist in the product and will surface as they land — they are not first-run today.
Can we tailor the policy to our organisation?
Yes — every section is editable, and the AI drafting engine pre-fills organisation-specific context (jurisdiction, sector, size, key systems) before you start.