incident response

CSIRT team members

Anonymous

Monday, February 13, 2012 - 19:29

Please do not use the individual PGP keys below to encrypt messages to the role address, irt@csirt.ja.net; use the public key for irt@csirt.ja.net instead. Contact Email: irt@csirt.ja.net Telephone: 0300 999 2340

Contact CSIRT

James Davis

Monday, February 13, 2012 - 19:25

Team contact details You can contact Janet CSIRT by electronic mail (preferred), telephone or fax during service hours; or by post. E-mail: irt@csirt.ja.net Telephone: 0300 999 2340from outside UK: 00 44 1235 822 340 Janet CSIRTLumen HouseLibrary AvenueHarwell OxfordDidcot, OxfordshireOX11 0SGUnited Kingdom

6 June 2012 at 11:15am

Commons Committee: Awareness raising to deal with malware

Andrew Cormack

Botnets

incident response

malware

The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has published a report on Malware, which recommends increased awareness among Internet users as the best way to deal with the problem. There’s a welcome recognition that “it is clear that there is no easy technological answer to cyber crime...

6 June 2012 at 11:13am

Data Protection Proposal: Incident Response

Andrew Cormack

Data Protection Regulation

Privacy

incident response

The Commission's proposed Data Protection Regulation seems very positive for Incident Response. Indeed Recital 39 explicitly supports the work of Incident Response Teams:

25 June 2015 at 4:25pm

Europe's Data Protection Proposal

Data Protection Regulation

Privacy

incident response

Last week the European Commission published their proposed new Data Protection legislation. This will now be discussed and probably amended by the European Parliament and Council of Ministers before it becomes law, a process that most commentators expect to take at least two years. There's a lot in the proposal so this post will just cover the general themes.

6 June 2012 at 11:12am

Information Sharing Communities

Andrew Cormack

incident response

As well as looking at some of the legal issues around sharing information among incident response teams, earlier this month I was invited by the Janet's Portugese equivalent, FCCN, to talk on the practical issues at their national CERTs conference in Lisbon.

6 June 2012 at 11:10am

Responding to Copyright Infringement Reports

Andrew Cormack

Digital Economy Act

incident response

Over the past few months I've been working with UCISA's Networking Group to develop a set of standard templates that Janet customer organisations can use, if they wish, to respond to copyright infringement reports.

Janet CSIRT

Anonymous

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 16:20

CSIRT

incident response

security

All Janet services are governed by the Janet policies. Janet CSIRT is the Computer Security Incident Response Team for Janet, the UK’s education and research network. Our primary role is to aid the detection, reporting, investigation and eventual resolution of security incidents occurring on Janet, and our customer’s networks. We also provide advice and education to our customers.

6 June 2012 at 11:06am

Processing personal data for third party interests

Andrew Cormack

Access Management

Data Protection Directive

Privacy

incident response

An interesting reminder from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) is supposed to make processing and exchanging personal data easier as well as safer.

6 June 2012 at 11:03am