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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.

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 →

A Sectoral Computer Emergency Response Team established by the Authority must be run at the sector's cost, submit to the Authority through its administrative head a monthly report on its operations in the template the Authority sets, meet the reporting obligat...

ghana-cybersecurity-act::44 · Sections 44 and 47(1): operate a sectoral CERT that reports monthly, forwards incidents and follows the Authority's directives →
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 →
ISMAP (Japan)1 control

ISMAP Cloud Operations covers the day-to-day security operations of cloud services. (1) Cloud Security Monitoring and Logging: 24x7 Security Operations Center (SOC) + SIEM Security Information and Event Management + UEBA User and Entity Behaviour Analytics + S...

ISMAP-CloudOperations-Monitoring-Logging-IncidentResponse-NISC-Reporting-Vulnerability-Change-SLA · ISMAP Cloud Operations - Security Monitoring + SIEM + Logging + Incident Response + NISC Reporting + Vulnerability Management + Penetration Testing + Change Management + SLA Management →

Kuwait NCF Detect function. Security Monitoring and Logging: comprehensive logging (Identity + Network + Endpoint + Cloud + Application + Database + Privileged Access + Network Devices + Cloud Trail + Container + IoT/OT) + centralised log management + Security...

KNCF-Detect-Monitoring-SIEM-SOC-Threat-Intel-CTI-MITRE-ATT-CK-EDR-XDR-MDR-24-7-Continuous · Kuwait NCF Detect + Monitoring + SIEM + SOC + Threat Intel + EDR + XDR + 24/7 →

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 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Computer Emergency Response Team?
Computer Emergency Response Team appears in the requirement text of Papua New Guinea National Cybersecurity Policy & Cybercrime Act (2016), Ghana Cybersecurity Act, C5 (Germany), ISMAP (Japan), India CERT-In Cyber Security Directions 2022. 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 1,016 frameworks.

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