Steps for Creating National CSIRTs

August 2, 2004 • White Paper

By

Georgia Killcrece

In this paper, Georgia Killcrece provides a high-level description of a National Computer Security Incident Response Team (NatCSIRT), its problems, and challenges.

Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

Subjects

Incident Management

Abstract

The purpose of this document is to provide a high-level description of a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), the problems and challenges facing these CSIRTs, and the benefits for developing such a team or response capability at a national level.