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NIST Releases Guide to Cyber Attacks

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the get-a-security-plan dept.

treerex writes "NIST (the US National Institute of Standards and Technology) has just released a 148 page report entitled Computer Security Incident Handling Guide (PDF). It covers the gamut, from setting up a response team to dealing with specific types of attacks: DoS, trojans, worms, malicious code, and unauthorized access. While written by a team from NIST and the contractor Booz-Allen Hamilton (BAH), they appear to have taken input from CERT and luminaries like Spafford. It is an interesting read."

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  1. IJDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The International Journal of Digital Evidence is also worth keeping up with, if this type of stuff interests you.

  2. No...It's FOR federal agencies by waferhead · · Score: 4, Informative

    The fact that the guvmint machines are the easy targets is apparently the point.

    This if for federal agency use, and anyone elses.

    This also effectively says "You WILL do it like this" to the federal agencies.

    There will be a quiz.

  3. Re:Interesting! by randyest · · Score: 4, Informative

    As you will no doubt glean if you read the document completely, there are a lof of "Oh, and I forgot"'s in order -- that's why they made the doc and, presumably, why it's posted here. So, please hold the preemptive (and thus incomplete) summary. It's useful info for us all to read.

    Then again, looks like all the other threads below are mired in conversations about nukes, Amerika-bashing, and other offtopic stuff, so at least you're on topic.

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