Computer Security Information

• CERT Coordination Center: The CERT Coordination Center is part of the Networked Systems Survivability Program at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. It was started by DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the U.S. Department of Defense) in December 1988 after the Morris Worm incident crippled approximately 10% of all computers connected to the Internet.
• DOE Computer Incident Advisory Capability: CIAC provides on-call technical assistance and information to Department of Energy (DOE) sites faced with computer security incidents. This central incident handling capability is one component of all encompassing service provided to the DOE community. The other services CIAC provides are: awareness, training, and education; trend, threat, vulnerability data collection and analysis; and technology watch.
• COAST (Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology) is a multiple project, multiple investigator laboratory in computer security research in the Computer Sciences Department at Purdue University. It functions with close ties to researchers and engineers in major companies and government agencies.
• Internet Security Systems
• Trusted Information Systems