Contingency Planning (NIST 800-53)

What Contingency Planning (NIST 800-53) requires

NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 Control CP-2 (Contingency Plan) requires organizations to develop a contingency plan for the information system that identifies essential missions and business functions, provides recovery objectives, priorities, and metrics, addresses contingency roles, responsibilities, and assigned individuals, addresses maintaining essential missions and business functions despite an information system disruption, compromise, or failure, and provides a plan to restore operations within defined Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs). CP-2 is a HIGH baseline control mandatory for federal systems at MODERATE and HIGH impact levels, and it is a foundational FedRAMP requirement. For AI agent systems, CP-2 is particularly critical because AI agents may be executing multi-step autonomous workflows at the time of a disruption - the contingency plan must address how in-flight agent tasks are safely halted, how agent state is captured for recovery, and how the restored system prevents duplicate actions from resumed agents. Failure to implement CP-2 for AI systems risks data integrity corruption, financial transaction duplication, and extended mission outage during recovery.

Pillar: Cybersecurity · Authority: NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) · Version: 1.1.0 · Last updated: 2026-04-10

Primary source: https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-53r5

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Primary Citations — 6 traced to source

• NIST Special Publication 800-53, Revision 5, Control CP-2: Contingency Plan
• NIST Special Publication 800-34, Revision 1: Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems

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