Computer emergency response team

Computer emergency response team

Computer Emergency Response Team is a name given to expert groups that handle computer security incidents. Most groups append the abbreviation CERT or CSIRT to their designation where the latter stands for Computer Security Incident Response Team. For some teams the spelling of CERT refers to Computer Emergency Readiness Team while handling the same tasks.

The name of Computer Emergency Response team is the historic designation for the first team at the Carnegie Mellon University. The abbreviation CERT of the historic name was picked up by other teams around the world. In the English-speaking parts of the world some teams took on the more specific name of CSIRT to point out the task of handling security incidents instead of other tech support work.

The history of CERTs is linked to the existence of computer worms. Whenever a new technology arrives, its misuse is not long in following - the first worm in the IBM VNET was covered up. Shortly later a worm hit the Internet on the 3 November 1988, when the so-called Morris Worm paralysed a good percentage of it. This led to the formation of the first Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon University under U.S. Government contract.

With the massive growth in the use of Information and Communications Technologies over the subsequent years, the now-generic term 'CERT'/'CSIRT' refers to an essential part of most large organisations' structures.

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CERT organizations

USA

In the USA most CERTs cooperate with the original CERT at the CMU which serves as the nationwide coordination center, which is a major point of contact for corporations such as Apple Inc.[1].

EU

In the EU most CERTs were created locally by universities and larger IT companies. Most member countries do not have a national coordination center and the teams are cooperating via the paneuropean TF-CSIRT "Task Force - Collaboration Security Incident Response Teams". There were 100 CERT teams accredited at the TF-CSIRT in 2006. The TF-CSIRT runs also the FIRST "Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams" being the global coordination center for CERTs around the world. The EU-centric CERT governance is passed gradually to the ENISA agency.

  • S21sec CERT, [1]. Spanish CERT specialized on vulnerabilities
  • SWITCH CERT, SWITCH Information Technology Services (Switzerland and Liechtenstein)
  • CERT.at, Austrian national level CERT
  • ACOnet CERT, Austrian Academic Computer Network
  • RUS CERT, Universität Stuttgart, the oldest CERT in Germany
  • DFN CERT, Deutsches Forschungsnetz
  • Mcert, BITKOM and BMWi (Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien and Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (Germany))
  • CERT-Bund and Bürger-CERT, BSI (Federal Office for Information Security)
  • CERT-Verbund since 2002, coordination center für CERT-Bund, DFN-CERT, IBM BCRS, Siemens-CERT, S-CERT and Telekom-CERT.
  • CERTA "Centre d'expertise gouvernemental de réponse et de traitement des attaques informatiques", DCSSI "Direction centrale de la Sécurité des systèmes d'information" (reporting to the General secretary for national defence (France))
  • Cert-IST, [2] "CERT de la communauté Industrie, Services et Tertiaire", founded in 1998 by Alcatel, le CNES, ELF and France Télécom
  • CERT-RENATER, Réseau National de télécommunications pour la Technologie (reporting to Minister of National Education (France))
  • CERT GARR, for the GARR Italian Academic & Research Network
  • CERT GOV, CNIPA "Centro Nazionale per l'Informatica nella Pubblica Amministrazione" (national computer center)
  • CERT-FI, [3]. Finnish national level CERT part of Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA)
  • CERT-EE, Estonian national level CERT
  • CERT-SE, [4] . CERT-SE is the Swedish national CERT and is a part of MSB (The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency).
  • INTECO-CERT, [5]. Spanish Cert.
  • RoCSIRT, [6]. Romanian NREN's Computer Security Incident Response Team (AARNIEC/RoEduNet)
  • CERT.PT, [7]. Portugal's Computer Emergency Response Team (Portugal)
  • CERT-WT, [8]. WebTuga Computer Emergency Response Team (Portugal)
  • CSIRT FEUP, [9]. Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto's CSIRT (Oporto University, Portugal)
  • GOVCERT.NL, [10]. Computer Security Incident Response Team for the Dutch government (The Netherlands)
  • CERT.be [11]. The national Computer Emergency Response Team for Belgium
  • BELNET CERT [12]. BELNET Computer Emergency Response Team (Belgium)
  • CERT-IPN [13]. CERT-IPN - Computer Emergency Response Team - Unidade do Laboratório de Informática e Sistemas do Instituto Pedro Nunes - Coimbra, PORTUGAL
  • CERT Polska (Poland)
  • esCERT-UPC, [14]. Spanish CERT(Universidad Politècnica de Cataluña).
  • CIRCL Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg [15]
  • CSIRT.CZ, [16]. Czech Computer Security Incident Response Team
  • CSIRT.SK, [17]. Computer Security Incident Response Team Slovakia
  • CERT-UA, Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine

Other countries

See also

References

  1. ^ "Security". apple.com. http://www.apple.com/macosx/security/. "Apple cooperates closely with organizations such as the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC)" 
  2. ^ "About US" TechCERT

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