ICS/OT Incident Response Plan: Write One That Works

ICS/OT Incident Response Plan: Write One That Works

From Blank Page to Approved Plan, with Templates Operators Can Use at 2 a.m.

Incident response plan templates are easy to find. A plan the night shift can actually use is not. ICS/OT Incident Response Plan: Write One That Works shows the person handed the job, whether an OT engineer, a security lead or a continuity planner, how to take an industrial site's incident response plan from a blank page to four signatures, one chapter at a time, with every worksheet shown filled in for an illustrative water plant.

What This Book Delivers

• A plan run as a project. Sponsor, charter, planning team, interviews across every shift, and the rules and contracts the plan must satisfy.
• Decisions made before the alarm. Incidents and severity in plant language, activation levels, and who may isolate, shut down or act when nobody answers.
• Steps an operator can follow. The first-hour procedure, legal clauses, and one notification matrix for the US, the EU, Canada and Australia.
• Recovery you can defend. Recovery numbers with honest margins, and written criteria for a safe restart.
• A plan that stays real. Playbooks, a console card, review rounds, a compliance annex, change triggers, controlled copies and crew training.
• A standards table in every chapter, and printable, editable templates for every worksheet.

Who It's For

• OT and control systems engineers asked to write or rewrite their site's incident response plan.
• OT security leads and IT security professionals responsible for incident response at industrial sites.
• Operations, safety and business continuity staff who own part of the response.

How It's Structured

• Chapters 1-2: set up the plan project and gather the inputs.
• Chapters 3-4: decide what counts as an incident and who decides.
• Chapters 5-7: write the response, recovery and playbooks.
• Chapter 8: approve the plan and keep it current.
• Chapter 9: a complete plan for a fictional electric cooperative, scored like an approver would.