GCP dashboard - June - December 2021

2 meetings:

• May: 220 participants
• September: 180 participants

• May:
  • Blogs: 

    https://tf-csirt.org/changes-to-tf-csirt-voting/

    https://tf-csirt.org/tf-csirt-vote-future-of-tf-csirt/

  • Agenda: https://tf-csirt.org/tf-csirt/meetings/63rd/
• September: 
  • Blog: https://tf-csirt.org/2021/09/looking-to-the-future-at-the-64th-tf-csirt-meeting/
  • Agenda: https://tf-csirt.org/tf-csirt/meetings/64th/

Incident response needs a community that has several well developed criteria for even one organisation to successfully operate.  These features are:

1.  A mechanism to safely share data with trusted contacts in all sectors.  TF-CSIRT supplies this through its “trusted introducer” approach so that information shared on mailing lists and at meetings is with verified teams from all industries and sectors.  
2. A way to safely verify information about teams you wish to contact.  The detailed TI database has a public and a private view supporting communication at a variety of levels depending on the criticality of the data. 
3. Guarantees that contact information is up to date and usable.  TF-CSIRT runs three “reaction” tests a year to ensure that team contact data is correct, that teams have up to date TI certificates in place and that teams are shown to be responsive. 
4. The ability to train and mentor staff.  TF-CSIRT runs the successful TRANSITS training courses three times a year and makes the materials available to anyone with an interest under a Creative Commons license.  New teams and first time attendees are assigned a mentor at TF-CSIRT meetings. 

More specifically in 2021, TF-CSIRT has had the following impact:

 - supported information sharing and contacts for specific security incidents. 

 - defined a position on support for incident sharing within GDPR and the proposed NIS2 Directive. 

 - seen over 80% of teams respond to the reaction test within 24 hours.

 - defined a future model to ensure the sustainability of TF-CSIRT and its services. 

 - increased the number of accredited teams by 15 and the number of certified teams by 4. 

• May:
  • The new voting process was approved
  • Changes to the ToR were approved
  • The TF-CSIRT futures proposal was approved
•  September:

  • New SC members appointed: https://tf-csirt.org/2021/09/tf-csirt-steering-committee-candidates-2021/.  David Byers and Sigita Jurkynaite

  • Phase 2 of the TF-CSIRT Futures project kicked-off

  • September reaction test completed (https://tiw.trusted-introducer.org/news/reaction-tests.htmlaccess restricted).

  • Public membership update at: https://www.trusted-introducer.org/news/Recent_TI_Update.html

1 meeting:

• October (still to take place)

1 meeting:

• October (still to take place)

1 meeting:

• September: 41 participants

• October:
  • Blog: https://connect.geant.org/2021/09/27/sig-msps-autumnal-event-on-current-and-future-plans-for-community-based-services?aiEnableCheckShortcode=true
  • Agenda: SIG-MSP - 21st of September 2021, Virtual meeting

• October:
  • How are external factors impacting on NRENs service portfolios
  • NIS directive update
  • Strategic Plans update

1 meeting:

• December
• 45 Participants

• An update on the progress made to date in the GN4-3N refresh project.
• Experiences of integrating of new Inventory Management System
• Timemap: latency and jitter monitoring tool
• Network Automation e-Academy
• Post Covid operational processes - What is the new normal?

1 meeting:

• September: 42 participants 

• September:
  • Agenda: SIG-Marcomms Autumn Meeting 2021: 30 Sep & 1 Oct

• September:

  • Experiences and lessons from the past year.

  • WACREN website and newsletter

  • Clouds update

  • Cyber Security Month 2021

  • TEASER TASTER - FROM CONCEPT TO CONTENT

  • BRAND STRATEGY

  • WEBSITES - MULTI-LANGUAGE MANAGEMENT

2 meetings:

• June: 113 participant
• October: 52 participants

• June:
  • Agenda: 7th TF-EDU virtual mini conference - 17 June 2021 - 13:00 CEST - 17:00 CEST
• October:
  • Agenda: 8th TF-EDU virtual meeting

• June:
  • NRENs have a role in being a trusted partner for providing safe, secure and reliable access to educational resources, tools and supporting educational institutions with digitalising the administration.
  • Data infrastructure for education - enabling interoperable and standardized solution. 
• October:
  • TF-EDU strategic directions 2022 - getting feedback from the TF-EDU membership - additional item about open standards
  • Going digital: eduID, lifelong learning identities, student information systems
  • Key take aways for post-pandemic NREN educational service focus