RE: IDS Incident Escalation Procedure

["Dimitrios Patsos" <dpat () space gr>]

Hi all,

I've recently co-authored a paper for the current state of the art in
Incident Response, called "On Incident Handling and Response: A
state-of-the-art approach. It provides guidelines for the formation of an
Incident Handling Team, the points of contact,methodology and procedures.

It's under property of Elsevier Computers & Security 25(5):351-370,2006, but
I'm pretty sure that it can be found somewhere online.

Hope this helps.

Dimitrios Patsos
Ph.D.(Cand.),M.S.c,CCDA,CCSE,CME,CHFA


-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On
Behalf Of khushbu.jithra () gmail com
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 08:02
To: focus-ids () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: IDS Incident Escalation Procedure

Hi Jim,

Usually, an Incident Escalation procedure for an IDS stems from
1. The structure of the core Incident Response Team
2. Adherence to any higher level policy, if required (in line with
escalation matrices defined in the business continuity plans)
3. SLAs signed with clients - internal and external

One suggested team structure is
1. Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) leader
2. Incident Handler
3. Database Administrators
4. Legal Counsel

Now depending on the nature and category of alerts coming from the IDS, an
incident can be escalated from the incident handler to CIRT leader to
database admin to Legal Counsel. Also, the escalation may vary depending on
the severity of alerts.

As Vijay rightly pointed, you can refer to the NIST SP 800-61 publication,
the Incident Notification section. This provides a sample list of parties
which are usually notified.

HTH,
Khushbu Jithra
Information Security Consultant
NII Consulting
Web: http://www.niiconsulting.com

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