ISTM283A Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Build a CSIRT

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Introduction

An effective team is a crucial aspect that determines the overall success of the team along with determining the success of the task. This discussion board emphasizes on different methods of building CSIRT as well as components of building an effective team.

Steps to building CSIRT

CSIRT stands for Computer Security Incident Response Team that receives reports in terms of security breaches that are further analyzed and is sent to the senders (Wara & Singh, 2015). The steps of building effective CSIRT includes

• Identifying the participants and the stakeholders
• Acquiring support and financial help from the management
• Generating the project plan of CSIRT
• Gathering relevant data
• Recognizing the constituency of the CSIRT
• Defining the CSIRT mission
• Obtaining and securing funding for the CSIRT operations
• Determining the level and range of services provided by the CSIRT
• Deciding the structure of CSIRT report and authority
• Recognizing the required resources
• Defining interfaces and interactions
• Defining the roles, responsibilities and the corresponding authority
• Documenting the workflow
• Establishing corresponding procedures and policies
• Collaboration
• Evolving an implementation plan along with soliciting the feedback
• Announcing the CSIRT when it is ready to be executed and implemented
• Listing the methods for analyzing the performance
• Having a backup plan for each component of the CSIRT
• Being flexible

Components of building effective team

Conclusion

References

Myerson, P. (2012). Lean supply chain and logistics management. New York: McGraw-Hill. https://www.mhprofessionalresources.com/sites/myerson/content/Meyerson_Lean_TOC.pdf

Wara, Y. M., & Singh, D. (2015). A Guide to Establishing Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) For National Research and Education Network (NREN). African Journal of Computing & ICT, 8(2), 1-8. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7358/d4974d246e4ecf2d832a124cb52e69e3c49a.pdf