Emergency Response Teams? - for Computer or other disasters? Very difficult concept for Kenyans. We live in a culture that thrives on crisis-management...I bet 99.9% of Kenyan graduates submitted their final projects - or +2hr before and after the deadline.
Its a culture that must be overcome if we shall ever setup a computer emergency response team.
walu.
nb: but maybe we could learn from the medical practitioners, they seem to respond better to swine, chicken and other emerging cocktails of flu.
--- On Thu, 5/7/09, mwende njiraini <
mwende.njiraini@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: mwende njiraini <
mwende.njiraini@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] IG Discussion 2009, Day 9 of 10 - National Cybersecurity
strategies
> To:
jwalu@yahoo.com> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <
kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Date: Thursday, May 7, 2009, 10:36 AM
> Morning,
>
> Reference to email below - you may wish to make reference
> to the following
> additional resources
>
> - One more CERT in Africa: Mauritius Gets Computer
> Emergency Response
> Team -
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146123/mauritius_gets_computer_emergency_response_team.html
> - CERT is located at Carnegie Mellon
University,
> involved in Internet
> security vunerabilities, long term network changes
> research:
> http://www.cert.org/
> - Team Cymru is a specialized Internet security research
> firm :
> http://www.team-cymru.org/> - FIRST is the global Forum for Incident Response and
> Security Teams:
> http://www.first.org/>
> Kind regards
> Mwende
> Please note the change in the subject line today is IG
> Discussion 2009,*Day
> 9 of 10 *
>
> *Disclaimer: Views expressed here (except those quoted or
> referenced) are
> the author’s own*
>
>
> On
5/7/09, mwende njiraini
> <
mwende.njiraini@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Good morning,
> >
> >
> >
> > Today we have the opportunity of discussing the last
> aspect of
> > cybersecurity: Computer Security Incident Response
> Teams (CSIRTs)/Computer
> > Emergency Response Teams (CERT). CSIRTs/CERTs are
> responsible for preparing
> > for, detecting, managing and responding to
> cybersecurity incidents as well
> > as creating consumer awareness.
> >
> >
> >
> > Global cybersecurity is said to be ‘as strong as the
> weakest link’. Developing
> > countries particularly in Africa have not sufficiently
> addressed
> > cybersecurity issues. While some countries have
>
initiated efforts to
> > develop cybersecurity capabilities through the
> establishment of National
> > CSIRTs/CERTs, the CERT-TCC in Tunisia is the only
> active national CERT in
> > Africa (http://www.ansi.tn/en/about_cert-tcc.htm).
> >
> >
> >
> > In establishing a National CERT/CSIRT…
> >
> > - What structure could be adopted?
> > - What services should be offered?
> > - What elements could be considered to establish
> trust in this
> > institution thereby encouraging organizations with
> critical information
> > infrastructure (CII) such as government agencies,
> banks, educational
> > institutions, water and power companies, etc,
to
> share of cybersecurity
> > incidents?
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Mwende
> >
> > *Disclaimer: Views expressed here (except those quoted
> or referenced) are
> > the author’s own*
> >
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