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 IMPACT Government Security Scorecard(IGSS) CIRT-LITE Research
       
       
In addition to a government’s national defence initiatives in protecting the infrastructure from physical security threats and natural disasters, it is also critical to secure the infrastructure against cyber threats. 

Because cyber threats transcend geographical borders and can strike from anywhere in the world, a Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) escalates a sovereign nation’s capabilities to identify, overcome and remediate cyber threats. Ideally, CIRTs should be capable of gathering its own intelligence instead of relying on secondary information on cybersecurity incidents for a better picture of the incident. 

The criticality of a CIRT is evident. Many national governments today see CIRT as a core element in their national information security master plan. And many more will be enhancing their skill sets to defend against the new waves of cyber threats.


 

IMPACT CIRT-LITE
To grow and help the CIRT community mature, there is a need to enable knowledge and technology transfers onto a single politically and commercially neutral platform. Through IMPACT’s CIRT-LITE, sovereign nations – particularly developing ones – will be able to develop and implement policies, processes and procedures that will meet the unique requirements of in-country national-level cybersecurity.

Through CIRT-LITE, countries will have access to a range of templates of polices, processes and procedures that can be modified or altered by the participating parties in the following areas:

 
Role and Responsibilities
 
- Policy templates on CIRT framework and structure
- Define the CIRT tasks
Workflow
 
- Template on processes utilized by CIRT
- Checklist for incident responders
Equipment (Hardware/Software) Utilization
 
- Process templates on equipment requirements and usage
Digital Evidence Identification, Collection and Preservation
 
- Process template on the acquisition and secure storage of digital information
- Quality assurance
Reporting
 
- Process templates on reporting protocols


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