Communication Among Incident Responders - A Study

Responding to some future incident might require significant cooperation by multiple teams or organizations within an incident response community. To study the effectiveness of that cooperation, the Carnegie Mellon® Software Engineering Institute (SEI) conducted a study using a group of volunteer, autonomous incident response organizations. These organizations completed special SEI-designed tasks that required them to work together.

The study identified three factors as likely to help or hinder the cooperation of incident responders: being prepared, being organized, and following incident response best practices. This technical note describes those factors and offers recommendations for implementing each one.

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Authors

Brett Tjaden

Robert Floodeen

This report is related to the following area(s) of work:

Security and Survivability

Technical Note
CMU/SEI-2012-TN-028
September 2012

Cite This Report

SEI:

Tjaden, Brett; & Floodeen, Robert. Communication Among Incident Responders - A Study (CMU/SEI-2012-TN-028). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2012. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/12tn028.cfm

IEEE:

B. Tjaden, and R. Floodeen, "Communication Among Incident Responders - A Study," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Note CMU/SEI-2012-TN-028, 2012. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/12tn028.cfm

APA:

Tjaden, B., & Floodeen, R. (2012). Communication Among Incident Responders - A Study (CMU/SEI-2012-TN-028). Retrieved June 18, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/12tn028.cfm

CHI:

Tjaden, Brett, and Robert Floodeen. Communication Among Incident Responders - A Study (CMU/SEI-2012-TN-028). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2012. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/12tn028.cfm

MLA:

Tjaden, B., & Floodeen, R. 2012. Communication Among Incident Responders - A Study (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2012-TN-028). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/12tn028.cfm

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