FIRST standards to clean up messy CERTs

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/20/first_standards_to_clean_up_messy_certs/

By Darren Pauli
The Register
20 Oct 2014

The global gathering of incident responders FIRST is spearheading a global 
standards effort to reform and unify the operations of government and 
large enterprise computer emergency response teams (CERTs).

The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) has tipped 
US$500,000 into the effort and has received backing from many national 
CERTs and governments including Australia, the US, Canada, and from 
Britain's new CERT.

FIRST director Peter Allor said at the Australian Information Security 
Association (AISA) conference last Friday that the framework would cover 
all operational aspects of national and large enterprise CERTs.

"Each CERT invents the way it will operate so they operate differently," 
Allor said.

"We put our hand up to do this and we received a lot of support."

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