CYNET-CSIRT is our founded Academic Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), hosted by the Cyprus Research and Academic Network (CYNET). CYNET-CSIRT provides incident response and security services to all Academic Institutions, Research Institutes and educational networks that are members of CYNET. It also provides early warnings, alerts, announcements and dissemination of information to its constituency and relevant parties regarding risks and incidents. This is accomplished by acting as an intermediary between affected parties and offering, when required, technical advice leading to the resolution of the incident. The affected parties may be internal or external entities to CYNET. Furthermore, CYNET-CSIRT educates its members about the effects of cyberthreats and cyber-crime, and train them to provide early warnings, alerts, announcements and efficient use of the respective tools. CYNET-CSIRT has also succeeded in becoming an Accredited Member with the Trusted Introducer Community and a Full Member of FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams) - the most well-known cybersecurity-oriented taskforces.
More specifically, CYNET-CSIRT is authorised to address all types of computer security incidents which occur, or threaten to occur, at CYNET and its members. CYNET-CSIRT is committed to informing its constituency and to issue alerts / warnings. Furthermore, it analyses the logs from incidents, vulnerabilities and artefacts and performs incident response. The team actively maintains and tests a list of updated security software tools that are used to assist in various activities such as system audits, vulnerability analysis, antivirus and malware handling tasks. In addition, it collects various documents related to security issues, such as technical “how to” guides and documentation on system security related techniques, like system installations, evidence handling, etc. CYNET-CSIRT will mostly respond within the same work day to an incident request.

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