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CERT-in-a-Box

The project 'CERT-in-a-Box' and 'Alerting service-in-a-Box' is an initiative of GOVCERT.NL to preserve the lessons learned from setting up GOVCERT.NL and 'De Waarschuwingsdienst', the Dutch national Alerting service.

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Visiting address:
Wilhelmina van Pruisenweg 104
2595 AN Den Haag
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Postal address:
Postbus 84011
2508 AD Den Haag

Telephone: (070) 888 75 55
Fax: (070) 888 75 50
E-mail: info@govcert.nl
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'CERT-in-a-Box' and 'Alerting service-in-a-Box'
21 / 07 / 2006

LEGAL

Introduction to Legal aspects of GOVCERT.NL and alerting service

This chapter will look at which legal questions have to be answered when setting up a CERT, with GOVCERT.NL taken as the starting point as a government organisation. This chapter will also look at which legal questions have to be answered when setting up an alerting service. We will then examine which concrete products are the implementation of the answers to these legal questions for both GOVCERT.NL and the alerting service.  

The starting point for answering and interpreting the legal questions for the setting up of GOVCERT.NL is the fact that the purposes of the organisation can be interpreted within the framework of national law and legislation. As already explained in chapter (final edit), the aim of GOVCERT.NL is to support government organisations in preventing and handling ICT related security incidents. Alongside this, GOVCERT.NL is the national reporting point for ICT related security incidents. The target group for GOVCERT.NL is the government. The alerting service from GOVCERT.NL is, in contrast, accessible to all. Via the alerting service, the general public is informed about computer viruses and software vulnerabilities. The information on ICT related security incidents received by GOVCERT.NL is translated into facts in alerts to the public by the alerting service.






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