Internet Storm Center

The Internet Storm Center (ISC ) ​​is an organization of personnel involved in computer security SANS Institute, which monitors the number of malicious / harmful activities on the Internet.

The ISC evolved from the website " Incidents.org ", an also founded by the SANS Institute page, which supported the public and private sectors in the Year 2000 transition. In 2000, launched " Incidents.org " cooperation with DShield for applying the Consensus Incidents Database (CID - Consensual event database) and collected security-related information from multiple agencies and multiple sites for mass analysis.

On 22 March 2000, the SANS CID succeeded in the early detection of attacks of "Lion" worm. Organised by the CID rapid alert and response helped to control the damage caused by the worm and limit.

Then DShield was involved with financial support from the SANS Institute in more detail in incidents.org. The CID was renamed the Internet Storm Center, to be the kind of justice in it - like a weather service - using a distributed sensor network.

Since then, the ISC has expanded its monitoring company more and more; their website speaks of over 20 million intrusion detection log entries ( log entries of detected intrusion attempts ( in computer systems ) ) per day. From this analysis and warnings of security threats to the Internet community are provided.

During the last hours of 2005 and the first weeks of 2006, the ISC because of a vulnerability in WMF format its longest period of a " yellow alarm " had.

The most important property of the ISC is his daily " handler Diary " (Event Diary ), which is created by one of the 40 volunteers and summarizes the events of the day. This is regularly the first published source of new attack trends, whose strength is the ability to search in collaboration further information and collect.

The ISC is currently staffed by about 40 volunteers, representing 8 countries and many industries.

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