London 2011 FIRST TC

CSIRT Resilience: coping with short-term events

FIRST TC Session

Wednesday — November 2nd, 2011 19:25

During the last few years we have faced a number of lower-level business continuity situations ranging from extreme weather conditions to suppliers failing to meet contractual obligations. In addition, our location next to a nuclear site poses some remote but unique scenarios.

Our flexibility and independence from our host organisation have led to us developing our systems and processes so that many of these events can be dealt with using normal working practices and minimal disruption to the services we provide to our constituency. This talk will look at some of the problems we have faced and how we try to integrate our short-term continuity plans into our everyday work.

Presenters

  • James Davis (JANET CSIRT)

    James Davis is a senior member of JANET CSIRT. JANET is the UK's National Research and Education Network, running at speeds of up to 100Gb/s on the backbone. JANET(UK), the company that operates JANET also provides a number of other services to its community such as SSL certificates, DNS services and eduroam, an international wireless roaming service. JANET CSIRT coordinates the response to security incidents involving JANET and helps develop security resources and policy.

    James joined JANET in 2006 and has since been involved with the investigation of over five thousand security incidents. In addition to handling incidents, he has been involved with the development of tools to help the team deal with increasing amounts of network data and security events. Prior to working at JANET he was a security manager and developer in the games industry, and a technical consultant for a small company providing managed security services to the public sector. James likes Perl and Land Rovers.