ULAK-CSIRT

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Ulak-CSRIT

Ulak-CSIRT (Computer Security Incident Response Team) is a security unit that has been established within the context of National Academic Network in accordance with the methods defined in RFC2350. Ulak-CSIRT (Computer Security Incident Response Team) is responsible for preventing the potential security violations originating from external networks to ULAKNET, ascertaining the attacks and the people in charge, similarly, preventing the attacks originating from ULAKNET to the outside world and if there was an attack, ascertaining the people in charge of the attack and sharing the information with the administrators of this network.

Objectives
•    Increasing the consciousness of information security throughout the network,
•    Decreasing the number of the attacks threatening the computer security of the academic network,
•    Coordinating the stage of ascending the people in charge of security violation,
•    Informing the administrators of nodes who are connected to the network about the up-to-date deficits and their solutions.
•    Training the connected node administrators about information security,
•    Supplying documents in Turkish about the methods of providing information security.

ULAK-CSIRT has been accredited by the European CSIRT Union Trusted Introducer (TI) in July 2007 and it is the first accredited team in Turkey. Ulak-CSIRT members built and run four different working groups whose members are IT staff of ULAKNET nodes. A total of 9 universities supported these groups by reserving some manpower. These working groups are Network Access Control WG, Honeypots and Blackhole WG, Web Security WG and PC Router WG.

For more information visit:

   http://csirt.ulakbim.gov.tr
   http://blog.csirt.ulakbim.gov.tr

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