State of the Practice of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs)
[Abstract] [Title Page] [Who is the CERT CSIRT Development Team and What Do They Do?] [Preface][Acknowledgements] [1 Introduction] [2 Computer Security Incident Response Teams] [3 Current State of the Practice of CSIRTs] [4 Summary] [5 Future Work] [6 Closing Remarks] [Appendix A: CSIRT Organizational Survey] [Appendix B: Comparison of Incident Response Steps and Processes] [Appendix C: Training Sources for CSIRTs] [Appendix D: Cyber Crime Law Resources] [Appendix E: Sample Incident Reporting Forms and Flowcharts] [Bibliography] [PDF File]
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[Abstract] [Title Page]
[Who is the CERT CSIRT Development Team and What Do They Do?] [Preface]
[Acknowledgements] [1 Introduction] [2 Computer Security Incident Response Teams]
[3 Current State of the Practice of CSIRTs] [4 Summary] [5 Future Work]
[6 Closing Remarks] [Appendix A: CSIRT Organizational Survey]
[Appendix B: Comparison of Incident Response Steps and Processes]
[Appendix C: Training Sources for CSIRTs] [Appendix D: Cyber Crime Law Resources]
[Appendix E: Sample Incident Reporting Forms and Flowcharts] [Bibliography] [PDF File]