CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team)

CERT (pronounced SUHRT ), officially called the CERT Coordination Center, is the Internet's official emergency team. CERT (which stands for "Computer Emergency Readiness Team") was formed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) in November 1988 after the Internet was assaulted in the Internet worm incident. Today, CERT focuses on security breach and denial-of-service incidents, providing alerts and incident-handling and avoidance guidelines. CERT also conducts an ongoing public awareness campaign and engages in research aimed at improving security systems.

CERT is located at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh where it is part of the Networked Systems Survivability program in the Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded research and development center.

Read more about it at: > The CERT Coordination Center offers a number of resources and an archive of advisories about current or potential threats to network users.

Last updated on: Mar 22, 2011

>  Enterprise Software related Research & News >  White Papers for the Retail Industry Are you a Know-IT-All? What technology is solid-state lighting based on? Answer  Sign up for the Word of the Day  Follow us on Twitter WORD OF THE DAY... tier 0 LEARN MORE ABOUT... Creating tier 0 storage tier 0 wear leveling write amplification write endurance decision management business process governance Profile-Driven Storage Resilient File System (ReFS) Security, Trust and Assurance Registry (STAR) Windows Server 8 community cloud managed storage facial recognition Shared serial-attached SCSI (SAS) open compute project BIOS password dynamic BPM (business process management) social BPM (business process management) in-circuit emulator (ICE) above the fold logic simulator photometric stereo WhatIs.com RSS Feeds