№1, 2011

CREATING CERT-TEAM FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTER NETWORK AZSCIENCENET
Yadigar N. Imamverdiyev

Incident response is an important aspect of information security management. In this paper the methodology of creating AZ-CERT team for scientific computer network AzScienceNet is described. The review of standard and scientific-methodical documents in the field of incident management is given, the choice of organizational structure and a set of services for AZ-CERT are substantiated, the model of stage-by-stage creation of a CERT-team is proposed. The description of the general process of incident response in network AzScienceNet and technical infrastructure of AZ-CERT is presented as well. (p. 15-26)

Keywords:information security, information security incident, incident response, computer emergency response team.
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