Security

DANTE's involvement in the provision of security services evolved between 1996 and mid-1998 from piloting a pilot EuroCERT service (in partnership with UKERNA) to the launch of in-house security services to its own customers under the name DANCERT.
 

Milestones
  • December 1996: TERENA awards DANTE and UKERNA partnership one-year contract for the set-up of a pilot European Security Incident Response Coordination Service
  • October 1996: DANTE becomes FIRST liaison member
  • May 1997: start of the EuroCERT pilot
  • January 1998: TERENA accepts proposal by UKERNA for the provision of an incident co-ordination service, to start in May 1998
  • May 1998: pilot EuroCERT ends, EuroCERT service by UKERNA starts
  • June 1998: DANTE establishes DANCERT for its own customers
  • September 1999: End of  EuroCERT
Documents 28th February 2001
[pdf] Security developments as reported in TWoD (23 Kb)

30th March 2001
[pdf] Tackling Network DoS on Transit Networks (77 Kb)
David Harmelin, March 2001

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Glossary