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Computer Emergency Response Team

What is Computer Emergency Response Team?

An organization that handles cybersecurity incidents and coordinates responses, providing technical guidance and threat intelligence.

Information Security

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as computer emergency response team. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on computer emergency response team

Requirements naming computer emergency response team across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

Security vulnerabilities are identified and managed as follows: • New security vulnerabilities are identified using industry-recognized sources for security vulnerability information, including alerts from international and national computer emergency response...

6.3.1 · Security vulnerabilities are identified and managed as follows: • New security vulnerabilities are identified using industry-recognized sources for security vulnerability information, including alerts from international and national computer emergency response teams (CERTs). • Vulnerabilities
PCI DSS 4.01 control

Security vulnerabilities are identified and managed as follows: • New security vulnerabilities are identified using industry-recognized sources for security vulnerability information, including alerts from international and national computer emergency response...

pci-dss-4-0::6.3.1 · Security vulnerabilities are identified and managed as follows: • New security vulnerabilities are identified using industry-recognized sources for security vulnerability information, including alerts from international and national computer emergency response teams (CERTs). • Vulnerabilities

Per Papua New Guinea National Cybersecurity Policy and Cybercrime Act: NICTA oversight + CERT coordination. Requirements include (a) cooperate with NICTA Oversight including licensing + monitoring + investigation + enforcement under applicable law + (b) coordi...

PNGCYBER-3 · NICTA Oversight and Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination

Lao Peoples Democratic Republic Law on Prevention and Combating Cybercrime Law No. 61/NA dated 15 July 2015 adopted by Lao National Assembly. Foundational Lao Cybercrime statute.

LAOS-CC-Scope-Application-Law-61-NA-15-July-2015-Lao-National-Assembly-MoPT-7-Chapters-Cybercrime · Laos Cybercrime Law Scope and Application + Law 61/NA + 15 July 2015 + Lao National Assembly + MoPT
C5 (Germany)1 control

Document, communicate and provide an incident response policy with technical and organisational safeguards for fast and proper handling, defining classification, prioritisation and escalation rules, interfaces to incident and continuity management, a standing...

C5-SIM-01 · Policy for security incident management

Ghana CSA international framework + 2024-2025 status. BUDAPEST CYBERCRIME CONVENTION (Council of Europe Convention No. 185, 2001 + 2nd Additional Protocol 2022): Ghana acceded 2018 + actively participates in Cybercrime Convention Committee (T-CY) + 24/7 contac...

GhCSA-Budapest-Malabo-AfricaCERT-2024-2025 · Budapest Convention, Malabo Convention, AfricaCERT and 2024-2025 Status

Questions people ask about computer emergency response team

What is Computer Emergency Response Team?
An organization that handles cybersecurity incidents and coordinates responses, providing technical guidance and threat intelligence.
Why is Computer Emergency Response Team important for compliance?
Computer Emergency Response Team is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding computer emergency response team helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Computer Emergency Response Team?
Computer Emergency Response Team appears in the requirement text of ISO 31000:2018, PCI DSS 4.0, Papua New Guinea National Cybersecurity Policy & Cybercrime Act (2016), Laos Law on Prevention and Combating Cybercrime (2015), C5 (Germany). Across these standards we have identified 7 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Computer Emergency Response Team?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how computer emergency response team applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

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