Incident Response Task Force

Objective

Handle day to day operational security issues and coordinate Computer-Security-Incident-Response across the EGI infrastructure.

Tasks

• Swift response to any reported computer security incident affecting EGI infrastructure
• Security Incident Management
  • Existing communication channel (mail list/security wiki) migration
  • New communication channel (if needed) setup
  • Incident response tools development, evaluation and adaptation
  • Incident handling procedures update/maintenance
• Establish additional operational and/or escalation procedures when required
  • a procedure to suspend a site from the EGI infrastructure
  • a procedure and agreed criteria to ban (blacklist) a user, a group of users and/or a VO
• Maintain and extend open source intelligence and information exchange with trusted partners
  • Gather information about current cyber attack and threats
  • Derive monitoring rules applicable to EGI

Coordinator

• Pau Cutrina from CERN