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Improving the international comparability of statistics produced by csirt s

Improving the international comparability of statistics produced by csirt s. Developing Cybersecurity Risk Indicators panel 26 th Annua l FIRST Conference Aaron Martin. Feasibility study design. Questionnaire developed to determine: Can CSIRTs respond to these questions?

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Improving the international comparability of statistics produced by csirt s

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  1. Improving the international comparability of statistics produced by csirts Developing Cybersecurity Risk Indicators panel 26th Annual FIRST Conference Aaron Martin

  2. Feasibility study design • Questionnaire developed to determine: • Can CSIRTs respond to these questions? • Would the data collected help produce quality statistical indicators? • Widely distributed to national CSIRTs • 25 responses • Analysis of results ongoing

  3. Preliminary analysis • Three sets of primary questions • General aspects of CSIRTs • Organisational capacity • Incidents • Feedback questions • Explaining non-responses • Additional information • Basis for calculations • Difficulties encountered • How to improve the questions

  4. General aspects • Accounting for more than one national CSIRT per country/economy • Classifying CSIRTs by constituency • IP addresses as an indicator of network size • Internet users as an indicator of network size • Understanding CSIRT data sources

  5. Capacity questions • CSIRT annual budget • Percentage of budget funded by government • FTEs employed by the CSIRT • FTEs employed for security incident handling • Technical skills • Incident reports handled without human intervention (i.e. automated) • Requests for assistance  dedicated action taken • Targeted mitigation (proactive notice) • Formal co-operation • Informal co-operation

  6. Incident-related questions • Phishing websites hosted in the CSIRT’s constituency • DoS attacks targeting the constituency • Defaced websites hosted in the constituency • Servers hosting malware • Servers directing to malware • Botnet C&C servers

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