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docs: the incident-response plan adds a ransomware and destructive-event playbook and the backup rules it needs - #100
The incident-response plan (governance/incident-response.md) gains what it needs for a ransomware or destructive event, drawn only from final, published sources, each named with its edition in the section that uses it and in A13:
A7, Playbook 8: ransomware or a destructive event (encrypted, wiped or deleted data; a wiper; a destructive insider or agent): verify, isolate and move to the out-of-band channel, preserve the state and logs, look for tools that impair backups, check for exfiltration, check backups for integrity and dropper malware, restore from the offline or immutable copy, harden before reconnecting. A plain loss with no attacker stays Playbook 4.
A1 and A2: the backup plane is administered apart from production, and the copy rule: at least three copies, on two media or two providers, one offsite, and at least one offline or immutable copy the production administrator cannot delete. A snapshot is not a backup.
A10: a backup inventory and recovery catalog, and backup retention set against the erasure rule (PDPC notice B.E. 2567). The consequence for locked copies is marked as a point for counsel.
A3, A6 and A8(vi): a preliminary reading that an encrypted-then-restored store is an availability breach (PDPC notice B.E. 2565, ข้อ 4(3)), with notice decided on the risk and the exemption file written at once. Marked for counsel.
A11: an out-of-band channel plan and an offline copy of the plan.
B3 and B5: a timed restore drill (at least yearly, monthly for critical data), and two drill scenarios in the queue.
A13: ten new source rows.
The whole plan stays PRELIMINARY until counsel signs it. No other line moves; one CHANGELOG bullet.
Added preliminary incident-response guidance for ransomware and destructive events, including backup separation, access controls, inventory and retention practices, and out-of-band communications.
Added restore-drill schedules and scenarios, plus guidance on assessing encrypted or wiped data and documenting recovery and exfiltration checks.
These changes remain preliminary pending counsel review.
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- Line 38: Update the snapshot guidance in the Copies bullet so it does not
classify all snapshots as non-backups. State that a snapshot counts only if it
remains recoverable without the source and meets the required retention,
isolation, and restore checks.
- Line 37: Update the Backup plane requirement so multi-factor authentication
applies to all backup-plane accounts, including administrator accounts, while
preserving the rule that admin accounts are used only for administrative tasks.
- Line 219: Update the exemption proof requirements in section (vi) and A3 to
require encryption and key-custody records, access evidence, and the
exfiltration check; retain the restore log only as evidence of recovery, not as
proof that the no-notice exemption applies.
- Line 233: Update the “Backup inventory and recovery catalog” statement to
specify non-secret key references, such as key identifiers, key versions, or
escrow locations, instead of the ambiguous term “keys”; leave the rest of the
inventory requirements unchanged.
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Record the official URL for the erasure notice.
A10 relies on this notice for the backup-erasure rule, but the source table still says “URL not yet recorded”. Reviewers cannot verify or re-check the cited requirement without the source location. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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The incident-response plan adds backup controls, ransomware and destructive-event procedures, backup inventory and retention guidance, and restore drills. The changelog records the preliminary additions, and the sitemap checksum for the changelog entry is updated.
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Backup controls and breach interpretation governance/incident-response.md, CHANGELOG.md, scripts/lib/sitemap-content.json
The plan adds backup administration, access, copy, inventory, and retention requirements. It clarifies the availability-breach interpretation for encrypted or wiped data and adds related source references. The changelog records the preliminary plan additions, and the sitemap checksum changes.
Playbook 8 adds response steps for ransomware and destructive events. The plan also adds out-of-band communication guidance and evidence requirements for an encrypted-data exemption claim.
Restore drills and scenarios governance/incident-response.md
The plan adds restore-drill steps, timing and frequency requirements, and ransomware and destructive-agent scenarios to the drill queue.
This change adds ransomware and backup guidance to the incident-response plan. Several statements are weaker or broader than their sources: backup administrator MFA is unspecified, the encrypted-data exemption proof is incomplete, the snapshot rule is overstated, and the catalog's "keys" field is ambiguous. These should be corrected before counsel signs the plan, but nothing in running code is affected.
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Review comments at @governance/incident-response.md:
- Line 38: Update the snapshot guidance in the Copies bullet so it does not
classify all snapshots as non-backups. State that a snapshot counts only if it
remains recoverable without the source and meets the required retention,
isolation, and restore checks.
- Line 37: Update the Backup plane requirement so multi-factor authentication
applies to all backup-plane accounts, including administrator accounts, while
preserving the rule that admin accounts are used only for administrative tasks.
- Line 219: Update the exemption proof requirements in section (vi) and A3 to
require encryption and key-custody records, access evidence, and the
exfiltration check; retain the restore log only as evidence of recovery, not as
proof that the no-notice exemption applies.
- Line 233: Update the “Backup inventory and recovery catalog” statement to
specify non-secret key references, such as key identifiers, key versions, or
escrow locations, instead of the ambiguous term “keys”; leave the rest of the
inventory requirements unchanged.
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- **Definitions:** an *event* is anything that might be a security problem; an *incident* is an event that meets the criteria in A3; a *personal data breach* is a breach of security measures that causes loss, unauthorized access, use, change, correction or disclosure of personal data, whether intended or not (PDPC notice B.E. 2565, ข้อ 3), of one of three kinds: confidentiality, integrity or availability (ข้อ 4).
- **Measures of the plan itself:** time from first alert to the recorded awareness time; time from awareness to each notice; the share of drill findings closed by their date (B4).
- **Updates and access:** update by default; hold a new open-source component or model for a controlled delay before it is adopted, so that detection can run first.
- **Backup plane:** the backup systems are administered apart from production; no production server, client or agent may change its own backup configuration; standard accounts use multi-factor authentication, admin accounts are used only for admin, and external access is by VPN only.
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Require MFA for backup administrators.
This rule requires MFA only for standard accounts. It does not require MFA for the privileged backup administrator account. NIST SP 800-209 requires multi-factor authentication for storage administrator roles. A password-only backup administrator account can defeat the backup-plane separation if compromised. (nvlpubs.nist.gov)
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-- standard accounts use multi-factor authentication, admin accounts are used only for admin+- all backup-plane accounts, including admin accounts, use multi-factor authentication; admin accounts are used only for admin
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Review comment at @governance/incident-response.md at line 37:
Update the Backup plane requirement so multi-factor authentication applies to
all backup-plane accounts, including administrator accounts, while preserving
the rule that admin accounts are used only for administrative tasks.
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Disposition, from the maintainers: CONSIDERED, carried to the next unit on this plan, thread left open as the record. Right that the line, as written, asks for multi-factor authentication on standard accounts and says nothing of the backup administrator: it follows the NIST IR 8374 Rev. 1 sentence the plan cites, which speaks of standard accounts. The plan adds only what a source it has read says, so the follow-up reads the administrator-authentication text of NIST SP 800-209 first, and then states multi-factor authentication for every backup-plane account, administrators included, citing that clause.
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@HetCreep Understood. The finding remains open as the record of the deferred change. Your follow-up will check NIST SP 800-209’s administrator-authentication text before adding the requirement and clause citation.
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Follow-up, from the maintainers: the clause is read. NIST SP 800-209, AC-SS-R5, asks for at least two-factor authentication on access to storage infrastructure that holds mission-critical data, and makes it mandatory for users in the Security Administrator and Storage Administrator roles. Adding it to the plan adds a requirement, so it goes through our own review first and is not in pull request #101; this thread stays open until it lands.
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@HetCreep Understood. Reading AC-SS-R5 confirms the source basis; it does not complete the plan change. The administrator MFA requirement remains pending your review and is outside #101. This thread stays open until the reviewed change lands.
**(v) Media holding line.** One paragraph, approved by the maintainer: that an incident is being handled, what is known, what people should do, where updates will appear. No speculation about cause or number.
**(vi) The exemption file (ข้อ 9).** Where Kolwen will claim that no notice to the Office is needed, it records at once the proof: for example data that cannot identify a person, or data not in a usable state because of adequate technical measures such as encryption, with the key intact. A decision not to notify is written down with its reason (EDPB para 125).
**(vi) The exemption file (ข้อ 9).** Where Kolwen will claim that no notice to the Office is needed, it records at once the proof: for example data that cannot identify a person, or data not in a usable state because of adequate technical measures such as encryption, with the key intact. A decision not to notify is written down with its reason (EDPB para 125). For encrypted data restored from a copy, the proof is the exfiltration check and the restore log (A3).
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Major · Security & Privacy · Heavy lift
Require encryption and key-custody proof before any no-notice exemption.
Line 219 gives an exemption that depends on data being unusable to unauthorized parties because of adequate technical measures such as encryption, with the key intact. For encrypted data restored from a copy, it names the exfiltration check and the restore log as the proof. An exfiltration check shows whether data was copied. A restore log shows that recovery ran. Neither shows that the data was encrypted, that the key stayed protected, or that an attacker could not read the data. A ransomware case could therefore support a no-notice decision without evidence for the stated exemption. A3 repeats the same proof list, so it needs the same change.
Keep the exfiltration check as part of the assessment. Treat the restore log as recovery evidence only.
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-For encrypted data restored from a copy, the proof is the exfiltration check and the restore log (A3).+For encrypted data restored from a copy, the proof is the encryption and key-custody record, the access evidence, and the exfiltration check. The restore log shows recovery only and does not prove the exemption (A3).
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Review comment at @governance/incident-response.md at line 219:
Update the exemption proof requirements in section (vi) and A3 to require
encryption and key-custody records, access evidence, and the exfiltration check;
retain the restore log only as evidence of recovery, not as proof that the
no-notice exemption applies.
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Disposition, from the maintainers: DEFERRED to the same follow-up, thread left open. The sentence is open to the reading you give: it sits after the example of data Kolwen itself encrypted with the key intact, while it means data an attacker encrypted that Kolwen then restored, where the exemption claimed is "no risk" rather than "unusable through encryption". The follow-up says so in words: for data an attacker encrypted and Kolwen restored, the claim is no risk, its proof starts with the exfiltration check and the access evidence, and the restore log shows recovery only. Both places stay marked preliminary and for counsel.
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@HetCreep Understood. The finding remains deferred to the same follow-up, with this thread open.
My proposed encryption and key-custody requirement was too broad for the intended risk-based claim. It applies when protective encryption is the basis for the exemption, not merely because an attacker encrypted the data.
The follow-up you describe separates those grounds in A3 and A8(vi). It also distinguishes access and exfiltration evidence from recovery evidence. I have not verified that follow-up. The legal interpretation remains preliminary and subject to counsel’s review.
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Follow-up, from the maintainers: in pull request #101 (commit c1545fe), A3 and A8(vi) now say that for data an attacker encrypted and Kolwen restored, the claim is no risk under ข้อ 5(3), not the encryption example. A correction to our earlier note: the proof list stays the exfiltration check and the restore log, as the reading the plan rests on gives it, and whether a working backup supports the claim through ข้อ 12(5) is now written as a question for counsel. Both stay preliminary.
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@HetCreep Understood. Your correction supersedes my earlier summary of the follow-up:
A3 and A8(vi) distinguish the no-risk claim under ข้อ 5(3) from the protective-encryption example.
The proof list remains the exfiltration check and the restore log. It does not add access evidence.
Whether a working backup supports the claim through ข้อ 12(5) remains a question for counsel.
My proposed encryption and key-custody requirement does not apply merely because an attacker encrypted the data. This does not establish that restoration alone supports a no-notice decision.
I have not independently verified commit c1545fe in #101. The legal reading remains preliminary. I will leave the thread open under the maintainers’ stated disposition.
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The incident-response plan (
governance/incident-response.md) gains what it needs for a ransomware or destructive event, drawn only from final, published sources, each named with its edition in the section that uses it and in A13:The whole plan stays PRELIMINARY until counsel signs it. No other line moves; one CHANGELOG bullet.
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