Incident Response Resources
Here are several recommended agencies that institutions will want to check in with when bulking up incident response plans:- NIST — Computer Security Incident Handling Guide Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-61/sp800-61.pdf)
- CERT Coordination Center — Computer Emergency Response Team, Carnegie Mellon University (www.cert.org)
- DoD-CERT — U.S. Department of Defense Computer Emergency Response Team (www.cert.mil)
- US-CERT — United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (www.us-cert.gov)
- FIRST — Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (www.first.org)
- InfraGard — Information sharing between private industry and the FBI (www.infragard.net)
- SANS Institute — Incident response, intrusion detection, computer forensics (www.sans.org)
- FFIEC -- Federal Financial Institution’s Examination Council lists requirements for incident response for financial institutions (www.ffiec.gov)