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Geographical Regions

Until 2015, the geographical scope of TF-CSIRT was limited to Europe, the Middle East and Mediterranean Africa. Moving forward, the focus of TF-CSIRT remains European, and all TF-CSIRT Meetings will continue to be held within Europe.

Following demand from the broader CSIRT community, the geographical scope has now been broadened and teams from all geographical regions are entitled to join. TF-CSIRT has chosen to align its geographical boundaries with regional internet registry definitions inline with approaches taken by other cybersecurity initiatives or communities.

The Global Approach to CSIRT Collaboration

For cybersecurity entities within the RIPE NCC Service Region

Teams are invited to follow the normal listing, accreditation and certification processes as described in our section on Trusted Introducer.

For all other teams

We expect that teams outside of the RIPE NCC Service Region will join their regional CSIRT initiative where applicable in the first instance (e.g. APCERT, AMPARO etc.) and FIRST.

When an application is received from such a team, the TI team will discuss the application with the team and their regional initiative (where appropriate) before proceeding with the normal listing, accreditation and certification processes.

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