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MCSB IR-4: Incident Response

3 Senserva Microsoft 365 security checks provide evidence for Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark control IR-4 (Incident Response). Each is checked against your tenant, ranked by Severity, with validated remediation.

3 checksIncident ResponseTop Severity: Critical

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What MCSB IR-4 covers

The Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark is Microsoft's own security baseline for Azure and Microsoft 365, organized into control domains. IR-4 sits in the Incident Response domain. Senserva evidences it with the 3 checks below, so you can see, per tenant, whether the control is actually met rather than assumed.

Microsoft: MCSB Incident Response MCSB overview

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I am preparing Microsoft 365 compliance evidence. Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark control IR-4 (Incident Response) is evidenced by these Senserva checks (source: https://senserva.com/control/mcsb-ir-4.html):
- Ir Update Incident Response Plan And Process [Medium]: Update and maintain the incident response plan and process
- Risk Detection Offline [Critical]: Risk detection was discovered offline (retroactively). The compromise predates the detection
- Risk Detection Stale [High]: Unresolved risk detection has exceeded the configured stale threshold
Using these facts plus your general knowledge: 1) Explain in plain language what IR-4 requires and why it matters. 2) Which of these checks I should fix first and why. 3) What evidence an auditor would want for this control.
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The 3 checks that evidence MCSB IR-4

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Senserva check	Severity	What it verifies
Risk Detection Offline	Critical	Risk detection was discovered offline (retroactively). The compromise predates the detection
Risk Detection Stale	High	Unresolved risk detection has exceeded the configured stale threshold
Ir Update Incident Response Plan And Process	Medium	Update and maintain the incident response plan and process

Also evidences

The same checks provide evidence for these frameworks, so one fix counts across your obligations:

NIST 800-53 SOC 2 CISA SCuBA CIS HIPAA

Evidence this control in your own Microsoft 365

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