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(Author: Galia Rivas Toral, Red CEDIA) Our Computer Security Incident Response Team – CSIRT was recognized by the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams – FIRST, a leading organization in response to security-related incidents.

The CEDIA CSIRT is a security incident response team that receives, reviews and responds to reports and activities, and was recognized after a difficult process of evaluation and management. CSIRT-CEDIA is now the second full member of FIRST in Ecuador.

FIRST, in turn, brings together several response centers at international level, creating a community of alert members to prevent and face risk situations; among its main functions is the cooperative management of computer security incidents and the promotion of prevention programs.

In addition, this non-profit organization seeks to foster the development, sharing of information, tools, methodologies and best practices. The promotion of safer electronic environments is a key part of FIRST's mission.

HOW IT WORKS?

The CSIRT's work is to preemptively review member networks to detect vulnerabilities in its systems and prevent them from being attacked and affected. In this context, RedCEDIA receives information on computer security incidents that occur in the networks of its members, creating and maintaining a system for receiving, processing and sending alerts to institutions; it coordinates, in addition, the communication with other CSIRTs of the country and abroad, since the CSIRT of CEDIA is recognized internationally.

It also creates a knowledge base with suggestions and troubleshooting procedures and thus prepares documentation on the safe installation of its servers.

BENEFITS

It improves the quality of the traffic in the networks of the member institutions of RedCEDIA, as well as the security of the same, with the decrease of security incidents caused by configuration failures. The goal is to strengthen the networks and servers of institutions to make them more resistant to attack.