RE: Standardized Reporting

["Brooke, O'neil (EXP)" <o'neil.brooke () lmco com>]

Hello, 

        Since last night's post, I've received several responses both on and
off list. Every single one of them was positive and/or supportive of the
concept. So I'm going to go ahead with the idea of developing a standardized
report. Right now I have a few objectives in mind for this report:

        + A generic report that can be used to document virtually any
computer incident investigation.
        + Document a methodical approach to the incident investigation.
(Some of the responses I've had expressed an interest in the checklist
because they were not entirely aware of the sequence of events that should
go into an investigation.)
        + Document both generic and private information, however, do this in
such a way that the private information can quickly and easily be stripped
from the report. If we start to use this form, it does not make sense to
document in one way for the incidents list and another way for your
management structure.
        + Operating System specific sections. We could make the form
operating system independant, but then we lose a great opportunity for
providing newcomers a practicle how-to investigate and incident.

        If anyone else has other objectives they would like a report like
this to satisfy, please, either send them to me or post them to the list.

O'Neil.

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