And the last video we covered the fundamentals of creating an incident response plan the next step after
your Incident Response Plan has been created as to form an internal computer security incident response
team an incident response team is responsible for providing Incident Response Services to part or all
of your organization.
The team receives information on possible incidents investigates them and takes action to ensure that
the damage caused by the incidents are minimized.
This team could be in House members from your organization's security team or it can even be outsourced
to an external group like a managed security service provider and ask us please our companies that provide
incident response and managed security services.
Some I espies like AT&T and CenturyLink offer these services and even Cisco has an incident response
service at the national level C-s parties and CERT Computer Emergency Response teams worked together
to help protect partners and citizens from cyber security threats.
The US cert for example is used to protect all Americans by responding to major incidents analyzing
threats and exchanging critical cybersecurity information with trusted partners around the world.
The U.S. asserts critical mission activities include providing cyber security protection to federal
civilians developing timely and actionable information responding to incidents and analyzing data about
emerging cyber threats and collaborating with foreign governments and international entities to enhance
the nation's cyber security posture one well-known Surt is the coordination center used at the Software
Engineering Institute.
They help solve cybersecurity problems by working with software vendors to resolve software vulnerabilities.
They even work with organizations such as the FBI and the Homeland Security Department.