2024
More than 50 teams have been certified.
30 years of security incident management in Europe were celebrated as the xxOCSC Conferene. Supported by sponsors and co-organized by FIRST and TF-CSIRT this was a very well recognized event. Thanks to our local host, CSA Global CSIRT (ES), who made it possible and has been a very supportive host, making us feeling at home.
2023
More than 500 teams are now listed by the TI Directory:
- 79 from the NREN community
- 306 from the commercial side
- 118 from the government sector
From the 503 teams at the end of 2023, 301 have been accredited, 46 have been certified.
2022
In September TF-CSIRT changed the organisational structure, from a task force being a part of GÉANT, to a core element of the Open CSIRT Foundation. This move allowed us to deliver more value to the community by integrating the great input and support from both GÉANT and RIPE NCC.
2021
At the end of the year more than 100 teams from government sector are listed.
2020
More than 400 teams are now listed by the TI Directory:
- 78 from the NREN community
- 239 from the commercial side
- 98 from the government sector
From the 415 teams at the end of 2020, 224 have been accredited, 36 have been certified.
2018
GÉANT and the TF-CSIRT Steering Committee agreed that the time was now right for TF-CSIRT to move to a new and different legal home. The TF-CSIRT Steering Committee have decided to put in place a working group to explore the options available to the TF-CSIRT community and look at the next steps in implementing this transition.
2017
ENISA together with TF-CSIRT formed a task force to find a taxonomy list and names everyone could rely on and refer to. Based on the eCSIRT.net taxonomy, which was developed by the TF-CSIRT Community already back in 2003, Law Enforcement, ENISA, EC3 and teams from TF-CSIRT developed together this common taxonomy, which has been adopted by many more teams since then.
More than 300 teams are now listed by the TI Directory:
- 73 from the NREN community
- 177 from the commercial side
- 76 from the government sector
From the 326 teams at the end of 2017, 163 have been accredited, 22 have been certified.
2015
At the end of the year more than 100 teams from commercial entities are listed.
2014
More than 200 teams are now listed by the TI Directory:
- 65 from the NREN community
- 79 from the commercial side
- 63 from the government sector
From the 207 teams at the end of 2014, 110 have been accredited, 11 have been certified.
2013
At the end of the year 99 teams are accredited.
2011
After successful closure of the pilot phase for the certification based on the SIM3 standard the first 4 teams have been assessed and approved by the TF-CSIRT Steering Committee.
2010
In 2010, the community developed a framework called SIM3 (Security Incident Management Maturity Model), to assess the maturity of security incident management capabilities within the teams. The TF-CSIRT Community added the ability to certify teams already accredited based on the assessment of trusted SIM3 Auditors. Every three years teams are re-assessed again, allowing to coach those teams and provide feedback as well as lessons learned to help to improve even further.
2008
More than 100 teams are now listed by the TI Directory:
- 46 from the NREN community
- 41 from the commercial side
- 18 from the government sector
From the 105 teams at the end of 2008, 55 have been accredited.
2003
The eCSIRT.net project started also with funding from the European Commission. It was piloting the exchange of early warning information and actionable information. As part of the objectives to establish situational awareness reports across the participating CSIRTs metrics have been developed on a taxonomy known today as eCSIRT.net taxonomy.
2002
TRANSITS development started with a European Commission funded project, that aimed at establishing CSIRT teams and at addressing the shortage of CSIRT skilled staff. The demand for the training spilled above and beyond the project and was picked up by TERENA, the predecessor of GÉANT, in creative and financial collaboration with ENISA, FIRST and members of the TF-CSIRT Community.
2001
In September the TI Service officially started with 55 teams at the end of the year. Eight teams had been accredited by then, known as "Pioneering" teams.
2000
Building on the expectations and requirements collected during and after the 1999 Paris meeting, two more meetings were organized and facilitated again by TERENA.
- 3rd meeting to discuss future collaborative activities between CERTs in Europe – 11-12 May 2000, Vienna, Austria
- 2nd meeting to discuss future collaborative activities between CERTs in Europe – 21 January 2000, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
As a result the Task Force (TF-CSIRT) was established as a peer-to-peer network of experts and practitioners, to work together and engage in projects and activities to foster the development of European CSIRTs and to coordinate incident response activities when appropriate.
The Trusted Introducer Service (TI) was defined and funded by the TF-CSIRT with TERENA providing the legal home of this service. The objective was to address shared needs and build essential support services for security and incident response teams. A call for tender was put out in search for a service provider for the TI.
1999
A project called EuroCERT which was mirroring a CERT Coordination Center for Europe failed for many reasons. As the community felt that the European CSIRT community would benefit from understanding the benefits of coordination and required infrastructure services like a common directory of teams etc TERENA invited all interested parties to a meeting in Paris.
- 1st meeting to discuss future collaborative activities between CERTs in Europe – 24 September 1999, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1995
For the first time FIRST as international forum of incident response and security teams organized its annual conference in Europe at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Many new teams from Europe met there for the first time, already supported by practitioners that had been newbies some two or three years before.
1993
The idea of a trusted collaboration was the inspiration that a few CSIRT teams, headed by CERT-NL (SURFcert) and DFN-CERT, got together and decided to have regular meetings in Europe. With the fact that more and more universities introduced the Internet and computers at their sites, CSIRTs were established at national research and education network community in whole Europe.