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11. TWCERTCC Activity Report 2008
Taiwan Computer Emergency Response TeamCoordination Center - Chinese Taipei
1. About TWCERTCC
Taiwan Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center TWCERTCC is a security organization for computer intrusion handling,
security-related resource and tools providing, latest vulnerability information publishing, and security education popularizing. In addition to play a coordination
role in domestic security domain, TWCERTCC actively participates in international network security organizations and actions to strengthen communication and
coordination with CERTs. Expect to provide users with a safe and convenient internet environment under cooperating with domestic and international security
organizations. TWCERTCC formally established since 1998. The major purposes of
TWCERTCC are to prevent and actively assist the computer and network security incidents in Taiwan, to analyze the system vulnerabilities, to provide computer and
network security tools and related documents for the system administrators and the programming guidelines for the developers, and conduct a series of training
programs to raise the awareness of network security. TWCERTCC is constantly reinforcing the organization functions and refining the network security services.
With the dedicated devotion and seamless collaboration of the whole team, TWCERTCC has accomplished several significant gradational goals and missions
as follows: 1. To assist the handling of the intrusion incidents around the region;
2. To announce the system vulnerability information; 3. To provide security training and education on protection and defending
technologies and skills; 4. To research and develop the Security Auditing System SAS which audits
the subscribed client systems; 5. To assess periodically the regional security level in the Internet;
6. To be the official international coordination in Taiwan by joining international security organizations.
The main purpose of TWCERTCC is to provide assistance to handle the incidents regarding information and network security. By raising the attention of network
79 community to security issues and conducting the research on computer systems,
we manage to enhance the fail-safe systems of computers and networks, and proceed to prevent the incident before hand. Following are our chief missions:
Speed up the circulation of network security information to enhance the safety of domestic information and networks.
Research and develop the computer network detecting and defending skills to strengthen the network safety.
Facilitate the foundation of each organizations emergency response team, promote the national wide network security, and reconcile the combination
and interchange on security information. Encourage and coordinate the exchanges and cooperation between each
international emergency response institution to maintain the global network security.
2. Activities Operations 2.1. Domestic and international security incidents advising and handling