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Improving the international comparability of statistics produced by csirt s. Developing Cybersecurity Risk Indicators panel 26 th Annua l FIRST Conference Aaron Martin. Feasibility study design. Questionnaire developed to determine: Can CSIRTs respond to these questions? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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IMPROVING THE INTERNATIONAL
COMPARABILITY OF STATISTICS
PRODUCED BY CSIRTsDeveloping Cybersecurity Risk Indicators panel26th Annual FIRST Conference
Aaron Martin
Feasibility study design
• Questionnaire developed to determine:– Can CSIRTs respond to these
questions?– Would the data collected help produce
quality statistical indicators?
• Widely distributed to national CSIRTs
• 25 responses• Analysis of results ongoing
Preliminary analysis
• Three sets of primary questions1. General aspects of CSIRTs2. Organisational capacity3. Incidents
• Feedback questions– Explaining non-responses– Additional information
• Basis for calculations• Difficulties encountered• How to improve the questions
General aspects
• Accounting for more than one national CSIRT per country/economy
• Classifying CSIRTs by constituency• IP addresses as an indicator of
network size• Internet users as an indicator of
network size• Understanding CSIRT data sources
Capacity questions
• CSIRT annual budget• Percentage of budget funded by government• FTEs employed by the CSIRT• FTEs employed for security incident handling• Technical skills• Incident reports handled without human
intervention (i.e. automated)• Requests for assistance dedicated action taken• Targeted mitigation (proactive notice)• Formal co-operation• Informal co-operation
Incident-related questions
• Phishing websites hosted in the CSIRT’s constituency
• DoS attacks targeting the constituency
• Defaced websites hosted in the constituency
• Servers hosting malware• Servers directing to malware• Botnet C&C servers