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We are the Computer Security and Incident Response Team (CSIRT) for the Janet network. Part of Jisc's Security Operations Centre, our mission is to safeguard the current and future network security of Janet (steering the security policies for all Janet connections) and of our customers, creating a secure environment to conduct your online activities. Our primary function is monitor and resolve any security incidents that occur on the Janet network, with specialists tracking a range of platforms, including Unix, Linux and Windows.

Incident statistics for February 2015

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 10:15

These statistics only relate to information collated by Janet CSIRT and do not provide an accurate sample of security activity across the research and education sectors. The figures are frequently more closely correlated to the activity of CSIRT and our detection of events rather than their actual rates of incidence.

For example: a successful investigation by researchers into a botnet will cause that month's malware figures to rise even though the malware may have been active in previous months.

Further information on our classification scheme is available.

Class

Number of new incidents

Compromise

46

Copyright

516

Denial of Service

74

Malware

192

Misconfiguration

6

Other

19

Phishing

14

Query - General

5

Query - LEA

3

Query - Legal/Policy

1

Query - Net/security

10

Scanning

16

Social Engineering

1

Unauthorised Use

4

Unclassified

0

Unsolicited Bulk E-mail

18