Network Working Group                                       J. Arvidsson
Request for Comments: 3067                                    Telia CERT
Category: Informational                                       A. Cormack
                                                             JANET-CERT
                                                           Y. Demchenko
                                                                 TERENA
                                                              J. Meijer
                                                                SURFnet
                                                          February 2001


TERENA's Incident Object Description and Exchange Format Requirements

Status of this Memo

  This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
  not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
  memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

  Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

  The purpose of the Incident Object Description and Exchange Format is
  to define a common data format for the description, archiving and
  exchange of information about incidents between CSIRTs (Computer
  Security Incident Response Teams) (including alert, incident in
  investigation, archiving, statistics, reporting, etc.).  This
  document describes the high-level requirements for such a description
  and exchange format, including the reasons for those requirements.
  Examples are used to illustrate the requirements where necessary.

1. Conventions used in this document

  The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
  "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
  document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [1].












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2. Introduction

  This document defines requirements for the Incident object
  Description and Exchange Format (IODEF), which is the intended
  product of the Incident Taxonomy Working Group (ITDWG) at TERENA [2].
  IODEF is planned to be a standard format which allows CSIRTs to
  exchange operational and statistical information; it may also provide
  a basis for the development of compatible and inter-operable tools
  for Incident recording, tracking and exchange.

  Another aim is to extend the work of IETF IDWG (currently focused on
  Intrusion Detection exchange format and communication protocol) to
  the description of incidents as higher level elements in Network
  Security.  This will involve CSIRTs and their constituency related
  issues.

  The IODEF set of documents of which this document is the first will
  contain IODEF Data Model and XML DTD specification.  Further
  discussion of this document will take place in the ITDWG mailing
  lists <[email protected]> or <[email protected]>, archives
  are available correspondently at
  http://hypermail.terena.nl/incident-taxonomy-list/mail-archive/ and
  http://hypermail.terena.nl/iodef-list/mail-archive/

2.1. Rationale

  This work is based on attempts to establish cooperation and
  information exchange between leading/advanced CSIRTs in Europe and
  among the FIRST community.  These CSIRTs understand the advantages of
  information exchange and cooperation in processing, tracking and
  investigating security incidents.

  Computer Incidents are becoming distributed and International and
  involve many CSIRTs across borders, languages and cultures.  Post-
  Incident information and statistics exchange is important for future
  Incident prevention and Internet security improvement.  The key
  element for information exchange in all these cases is a common
  format for Incident (Object) description.

  It is probable that in further development or implementation the
  IODEF might be used for forensic purposes, and this means that
  Incident description must be unambiguous and allow for future custody
  (archiving/documentation) features.








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  Another issue that is targeted by developing IODEF is a need to have
  higher level Incident description and exchange format than will be
  provided by IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems) and the proposed IDEF
  (Intrusion Detection Exchange Format).  Compatibility with IDEF and
  other related standards will be satisfied by the IODEF requirement on
  modularity and extensibility.  IODEF should vertically be compatible
  with IDMEF, IODEF might be able to include or reference IDMEF Alert
  message as initial information about Incident.

2.2. Incident Description Terms

  A definition of the main terms used in the rest of document is given
  for clarity.

  Where possible, existing definitions will be used; some definitions
  will need additional detail and further consideration.

  Taxonomy of the Computer Security Incident related terminology made
  by TERENA's ITDWG [2] is presented in [12].

2.2.1. Attack

  An assault on system security that derives from an intelligent
  threat, i.e., an intelligent act that is a deliberate attempt
  (especially in the sense of a method or technique) to evade security
  services and violate the security policy of a system.

  Attack can be active or passive, by insider or by outsider, or via
  attack mediator.

2.2.2. Attacker

  Attacker is individual who attempts one or more attacks in order to
  achieve an objective(s).

  For the purpose of IODEF attacker is described by its network ID,
  organisation which network/computer attack was originated and
  physical location information (optional).

2.2.3. CSIRT

  CSIRT (Computer Security Incident Response Team) is used in IODEF to
  refer to the authority handling the Incident and creating Incident
  Object Description.  The CSIRT is also likely to be involved in
  evidence collection and custody, incident remedy, etc.

  In IODEF CSIRT represented by its ID, constituency, public key, etc.




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2.2.4. Damage

  An intended or unintended consequence of an attack which affects the
  normal operation of the targeted system or service.  Description of
  damage may include free text description of actual result of attack,
  and, where possible, structured information about the particular
  damaged system, subsystem or service.

2.2.5. Event

  An action directed at a target which is intended to result in a
  change of state (status) of the target.  From the point of view of
  event origination, it can be defined as any observable occurrence in
  a system or network which resulted in an alert being generated.  For
  example, three failed logins in 10 seconds might indicate a brute-
  force login attack.

2.2.6. Evidence

  Evidence is information relating to an event that proves or supports
  a conclusion about the event. With respect to security incidents (the
  events), it may include but is not limited to: data dump created by
  Intrusion Detection System (IDS), data from syslog file, kernel
  statistics, cache, memory, temporary file system, or other data that
  caused the alert or were collected after the incident happened.

  Special rules and care must be taken when storing and archiving
  evidence, particularly to preserve its integrity.  When necessary
  evidence should be stored encrypted.

  According to the Guidelines for Evidence Collection and Archiving
  (Evidence) evidence must be strictly secured.  The chain of evidence
  custody needs to be clearly documented.

  It is essential that evidence should be collected, archived and
  preserved according to local legislation.

2.2.7. Incident

  An Incident is a security event that involves a security violation.
  An incident can be defined as a single attack or a group of attacks
  that can be distinguished from other attacks by the method of attack,
  identity of attackers, victims, sites, objectives or timing, etc.

  An incident is a root element of the IODEF. In the context of IODEF,
  the term Incident is used to mean a Computer Security Incident or an
  IT Security Incident.




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  However we should distinguish between the generic definition of
  'Incident' which is an event that might lead to damage or damage
  which is not too serious, and 'Security Incident' and 'IT Security
  Incident' which are defined below:

  a) Security incident is an event that involves a security violation.
     This may be an event that violates a security policy, UAP, laws
     and jurisdictions, etc. A security incident may also be an
     incident that has been escalated to a security incident.

     A security incident is worse than an incident as it affects the
     security of or in the organisation. A security incident may be
     logical, physical or organisational, for example a computer
     intrusion, loss of secrecy, information theft, fire or an alarm
     that doesn't work properly.  A security incident may be caused on
     purpose or by accident.  The latter may be if somebody forgets to
     lock a door or forgets to activate an access list in a router.

  b) An IT security incident is defined according to [9] as any real or
     suspected adverse event in relation to the security of a computer
     or computer network.  Typical security incidents within the IT
     area are: a computer intrusion, a denial-of-service attack,
     information theft or data manipulation, etc.

2.2.8. Impact

  Impact describes result of attack expressed in terms of user
  community, for example the cost in terms of financial or other
  disruption

2.2.9. Target

  A computer or network logical entity (account, process or data) or
  physical entity (component, computer, network or internetwork).

2.2.10. Victim

  Victim is individual or organisation which suffered the attack which
  is described in incident report.

  For the purpose of IODEF victim is described by its network ID,
  organisation and location information.

2.2.11. Vulnerability

  A flaw or weakness in a system's design, implementation, or operation
  and management that could be exploited to violate the system's
  security policy.



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  Most systems have vulnerabilities of some sort, but this does not
  mean that the systems are too flawed to use.  Not every threat
  results in an attack, and not every attack succeeds.  Success depends
  on the degree of vulnerability, the strength of attacks, and the
  effectiveness of any countermeasures in use.  If the attacks needed
  to exploit a vulnerability are very difficult to carry out, then the
  vulnerability may be tolerable.  If the perceived benefit to an
  attacker is small, then even an easily exploited vulnerability may be
  tolerable.  However, if the attacks are well understood and easily
  made, and if the vulnerable system is employed by a wide range of
  users, then it is likely that there will be enough benefit for
  someone to make an attack.

2.2.12. Other terms

  Other terms used: alert, activity, IDS, Security Policy, etc. - are
  defined in related I-Ds, RFCs and standards [3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10].

3. General Requirements

3.1. The IODEF shall reference and use previously published RFCs
    where possible.

  Comment:
  The IETF has already developed a number of standards in the areas of
  networks and security that are actually deployed in present Internet.
  Current standards provide framework for compatibility of IODEF with
  other related technologies necessary to operate /implement IODEF in
  practice.  Another issue of compatibility for the IODEF is its
  general compatibility with IDEF currently being developed by IETF
  IDEWG.  In the interest of time and compatibility, defined and
  accepted standards should be used wherever possible.

  In particularly, IODEF specification proposals SHOULD rely heavily on
  existing communications, encryption and language standards, where
  possible.

4. Description Format

4.1. IODEF shall support full internationalization and localization.

  Comment:
  Since some Incidents need involvement of CSIRTs from different
  countries, cultural and geographic regions, the IODEF description
  must be formatted such that they can be presented to an operator in a
  local language and adhering to local presentation formats.





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  Although metalanguage for IODEF identifiers and labels is considered
  to be English, a local IODEF implementation might be capable to
  translate metalanguage identifiers and labels into local language and
  presentations if necessary.

  Localized presentation of dates, time and names may also be required.
  In cases where the messages contain text strings and names that need
  characters other than Latin-1 (or ISO 8859-1), the information
  preferably should be represented using the ISO/IEC IS 10646-1
  character set and encoded using the UTF-8 transformation format, and
  optionally using local character sets and encodings [13].

4.2. The IODEF must support modularity in Incident description to
    allow aggregation and filtering of data.

  Comment:
  It is suggested that Incident description with IODEF might include
  external information, e.g., from IDS, or reference externally stored
  evidence custody data, or such information might be removed from
  current IODEF description, e.g., in purposes of privacy or security.
  Another practical/real life motivation for this requirement is to
  give possibility for some CSIRTs/managers to perform filtering and/or
  data aggregation functions on IODEF descriptions for the purposes of
  statistics, reporting and high level Incident information exchange
  between CSIRTs and/or their constituency and sponsors.

  Therefore the IODEF descriptions MUST be structured to facilitate
  these operations.  This also implies to strong IODEF semantics.

4.3. IODEF must support the application of an access restriction
    policy attribute to every element.

  Comment:
  IODEF Incident descriptions potentially contain sensitive or private
  information (such as passwords, persons/organisations identifiers or
  forensic information (evidence data)) and in some cases may be
  exposed to non-authorised persons.  Such situations may arise
  particularly in case of Incident information exchange between CSIRTs
  or other involved bodies.  Some cases may be addressed by encrypting
  IODEF elements, however this will not always be possible.

  Therefore, to prevent accidental disclosure of sensitive data, parts
  of the IODEF object must be marked with access restriction
  attributes.  These markings will be particularly useful when used
  with automated processing systems.






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5. Communications Mechanisms Requirements

5.1. IODEF exchange will normally be initiated by humans using
    standard communication protocols, for example, e-mail, WWW/HTTP,
    LDAP.

  Comment:
  IODEF description is normally created by a human using special or
  standard text editors.  The IODEF is targeted to be processed by
  automated Incident handling systems but still must be human readable,
  able to be viewed and browsed with standard tools (e.g., browsers or
  electronic table processors or database tools like MS Excel or
  Access).  Incident information exchange will normally require
  authorisation by  an operator or CSIRT manager so is not expected to
  be initiated automatically.  The role of Incident handling system is
  to provide assistance and tools for performing the exchange.

  It is important to distinguish the purposes of the machine readable
  and exchangeable IDEF Intrusion message format and the human oriented
  and created IODEF Incident description.

  Communications security requirements will be applied separately
  according to local policy so are not defined by this document.

6. Message Contents

6.1. The root element of the IO description should contain a unique
    identification number (or identifier), IO purpose and default
    permission level

  Comment:
  Unique identification number (or identifier) is necessary to
  distinguish one Incident from another.  It is suggested that unique
  identification number will contain information at least about IO
  creator, i.e. CSIRT or related body.  The classification of the
  Incident may also be used to form a unique identification number.  IO
  purpose will actually control which elements are included in the
  IODEF object Purposes may include incident alert/registration,
  handling, archiving, reporting or statistics.  The purpose, incident
  type or status of Incident investigation may require different levels
  of access permission for the Incident information.

  It is considered that root element of the IODEF will be <INCIDENT>
  and additional information will be treated as attributes of the root
  element.






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6.2. The content of the IODEF description should contain the type of
    the attack if it is known.

  It is expected that this type will be drawn from a standardized list
  of events; a new type of event may use a temporary implementation-
  specific type if the event type has not yet been standardized.

  Comment:
  Incident handling may involve many different staff members and teams.
  It is therefore essential that common terms are used to describe
  incidents.

  If the event type has not yet been standardized, temporary type
  definition might be given by team created IO.  It is expected that
  new type name will be self-explanatory and derived from a similar,
  existing type definition.

6.3. The IODEF description must be structured such that any relevant
    advisories, such as those from CERT/CC, CVE, can be referenced.

  Comment:
  Using standard Advisories and lists of known Attacks and
  Vulnerabilities will allow the use of their recommendations on
  Incident handling/prevention.  Such information might be included as
  an attribute to the attack or vulnerability type definition.

6.4. IODEF may include a detailed description of the attack that
    caused the current Incident.

  Comment:
  Description of attack includes information about attacker and victim,
  the appearance of the attack and possible impact.  At the early stage
  of Intrusion alert and Incident handling there is likely to be
  minimal information, during handling of the Incident this will grow
  to be sufficient for Incident investigation and remedy. Element
  <ATTACK> should be one of the main elements of Incident description.

6.5. The IODEF description must include or be able to reference
    additional detailed data related to this specific underlying
    event(s)/activity, often referred as evidence.

  Comment:
  For many purposes Incident description does not need many details on
  specific event(s)/activity that caused the Incident; this information
  may be referenced as external information (by means of URL).  In some
  cases it might be convenient to store separately evidence that has
  different access permissions.  It is foreseen that another standard
  will be proposed for evidence custody [5].



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6.6. The IODEF description MUST contain the description of the
    attacker and victim.

  Comment:
  This information is necessary to identify the source and target of
  the attack.  The minimum information about attacker and victim is
  their IP or Internet addresses, extended information will identify
  their organisations allowing CSIRTs to take appropriate measures for
  their particular constituency.

6.7. The IODEF description must support the representation of
    different types of device addresses, e.g., IP address (version 4 or
    6) and Internet name.

  Comment:
  The sites from which attack is launched might have addresses in
  various levels of the network protocol hierarchy (e.g., Data layer 2
  MAC addresses or Network layer 3 IP addresses).  Additionally, the
  devices involved in an intrusion event might use addresses that are
  not IP-centric, e.g., ATM-addresses.  It is also understood that
  information about the source and target of the attack might be
  obtained from IDS and include the IP address, MAC address or both.

6.8. IODEF must include the Identity of the creator of the Incident
    Object (CSIRT or other authority).  This may be the sender in an
    information exchange or the team currently handling the incident.

  Comment:
  The identity of Incident description creator is often valuable
  information for Incident response.  In one possible scenario the
  attack may progress through the network, comparison of corresponding
  incidents reported by different authorities might provide some
  additional information about the origin of the attack.  This is also
  useful information at post-incident information handling/exchange
  stage.

6.9. The IODEF description must contain an indication of the
    possible impact of this event on the target.  The value of this
    field should be drawn from a standardized list of values if the
    attack is recognized as known, or expressed in a free language by
    responsible CSIRT team member.

  Comment:
  Information concerning the possible impact of the event on the target
  system provides an indication of what the attacker is attempting to
  do and is critical data for the CSIRTs to take actions and perform





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  damage assessment.  If no reference information (Advisories) is
  available, this field may be filled in based on CSIRT team
  experience.

  It is expected that most CSIRTs will develop Incident handling
  support systems, based on existing Advisories (such as those from
  CERT/CC, CVE, etc.) that usually contain list of possible impacts for
  identified attacks.

  This also relates to the development of IDEF which will be
  implemented in intelligent IDS, able to retrieve information from
  standard databases of attacks and vulnerabilities [3].

6.10. The IODEF must be able to state the degree of confidence in
     the report information.

  Comment:
  Including this information is essential at the stage of Incident
  creation, particularly in cases when intelligent automatic IDS or
  expert systems are used.  These normally use statistical engines to
  estimate the event probability.

6.11. The IODEF description must provide information about the
     actions taken in the course of this incident by previous CSIRTs.

  Comment:
  The IODEF describes an Incident throughout its life-time from Alert
  to closing and archiving.  It is essential to track all actions taken
  by all involved parties.  This will help determine what further
  action needs to be taken, if any.  This is especially important in
  case of Incident information exchange between CSIRTs in process of
  investigation.

6.12. The IODEF must support reporting of the time of all stages
     along Incident life-time.

  Comment:
  Time is important from both a reporting and correlation point of
  view.  Time is one of main components that can identify the same
  Incident or attack if launched from many sites or distributed over
  the network.  Time is also essential to be able to track the life of
  an Incident including Incident exchange between CSIRTs in process of
  investigating.








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6.13. Time shall be reported as the local time and time zone offset
     from UTC.  (Note: See RFC 1902 for guidelines on reporting time.)

  Comment:
  For event correlation purposes, it is important that the manager be
  able to normalize the time information reported in the IODEF
  descriptions.

6.14. The format for reporting the date must be compliant with all
     current standards for Year 2000 rollover, and it must have
     sufficient capability to continue reporting date values past the
     year 2038.

  Comment:
  It is stated in the purposes of the IODEF that the IODEF shall
  describe the Incident throughout its life-time.  In the case of
  archiving this duration might be unlimited.  Therefore,
  implementations that limit expression of time value (such as 2038
  date representation limitation in "Unix time") MUST be avoided.

6.15. Time granularity in IO time parameters shall not be specified
     by the IODEF.

  Comment:
  The time data may be included into IODEF description by existing
  information systems, retrieved from incident reporting messages or
  taken from IDS data or other event registration tools.  Each of these
  cases may have its own different time granularity.  For the purposes
  of implementation, it should be possible to handle time at different
  stages according to the local system capabilities.

6.16. The IODEF should support confidentiality of the description
     content.

  The selected design should be capable of supporting a variety of
  encryption algorithms and must be adaptable to a wide variety of
  environments.

  Comment:
  IODEF Incident descriptions potentially contain sensitive or private
  information (such as forensic data (evidence data), passwords, or
  persons/organisations identifiers) which would be of great interest
  to an attacker or malefactor.  Incident information normally will be
  stored on a networked computer, which potentially may be exposed to
  attacks (or compromised).  Incident information may be transmitted
  across uncontrolled network segments.  Therefore, it is important
  that the content be protected from unauthorised access and
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  and encryption technologies are varied from regions and countries and
  change often, it is important that the design selected be capable of
  supporting a number of different encryption options and be adaptable
  by the user to a variety of environments. Additional measures may be
  undertaken for securing the Incident during communication but this
  issue is outside of IODEF scope as it implies more strict rules for
  IO archiving and storing in general.

6.17. The IODEF should ensure the integrity of the description
     content.

  The selected design should be capable of supporting a variety of
  integrity mechanisms and must be adaptable to a wide variety of
  environments.

  Comment:
  Special measures should be undertaken to prevent malicious IO
  changes.

  Additional measures may be undertaken for securing the Incident
  during communication but this issue is outside of IODEF scope.

6.18. The IODEF should ensure the authenticity and non-repudiation
     of the message content.

  Comment:
  Authenticity and accountability is needed by many teams, especially
  given the desire to automatically handle IOs, therefore it MUST be
  included in the IODEF.  Because of the importance of IO authenticity
  and non-repudiation to many teams and especially in case of
  communication between them, the implementation of these requirements
  is strongly RECOMMENDED.

6.19. The IODEF description must support an extension mechanism
     which may be used by implementers.  This allows future
     implementation-specific or experimental data.  The implementer
     MUST indicate how to interpret any included extensions.

  Comment:
  Implementers might wish to supply extra data such as information for
  internal purposes or necessary for the particular implementation of
  their Incident handling system.  These data may be removed or not in
  external communications but it is essential to mark them as
  additional to prevent wrong interpretation by different systems.







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6.20. The semantics of the IODEF description must be well defined.

  Comment:
  IODEF is a human oriented format for Incident description, and IODEF
  description should be capable of being read by humans.  The use of
  automatic parsing tools is foreseen but should not be critically
  necessary.  Therefore, IODEF must provide  good semantics, which will
  be  key to understanding what the description contains.  In some
  cases the IODEF description will be used for  automatic decision
  making, so it is important that the description be interpreted
  correctly.  This is an argument for using language-based semantics.
  The metalanguage for IODEF identifiers and labels is proposed to be
  English, a local IODEF implementation might be able to translate
  metalanguage identifiers and labels into local language and
  presentations if necessary.

7. IODEF extensibility

7.1. The IODEF itself MUST be extensible.  It is essential that when
    the use of new technologies and development of automated Incident
    handling system demands extension of IODEF, the IODEF will be
    capable to include new information.

  Comment:
  In addition to the need to extend IODEF to support new Incident
  handling tools, it is also suggested that IODEF will incorporate new
  developments from related standardisation areas such as IDEF for IDS
  or the development of special format for evidence custody.  The
  procedure for extension should be based on CSIRT/IODEF community
  acceptance/approval.

8. Security Considerations

  This memo describes requirements to an Incident Object Description
  and Exchange Format, which intends to define a common data format for
  the description, archiving and exchange of information about
  incidents between CSIRTs (including alert, incident in investigation,
  archiving, statistics, reporting, etc.).  In that respect the
  implementation of the IODEF is a subject to security considerations.
  Particular security requirement to access restriction indication is
  discussed in section 4.3, requirements to Incident description
  confidentiality, integrity, authenticity and non-repudiation are
  described in sections 6.16, 6.17, 6.18.








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9. References

  [1]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
       Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

  [2]  Incident Taxonomy and Description Working Group Charter -
       http://www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf-csirt/i-taxonomy/

  [3]  Intrusion Detection Exchange Format Requirements by Wood, M. -
       December 2000, Work in Progress.

  [4]  Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format Extensible Markup
       Language (XML) Document Type Definition by D. Curry, H. Debar -
       February 2001, Work in Progress.

  [5]  Guidelines for Evidence Collection and Archiving by Dominique
       Brezinski, Tom Killalea - July 2000, Work in Progress.

  [6]  Brownlee, N. and E. Guttman, "Expectations for Computer Security
       Incident Response", BCP 21, RFC 2350, June 1998.

  [7]  Shirey, R., "Internet Security Glossary", FYI 36, RFC 2828, May
       2000.

  [8]  Establishing a Computer Security Incident Response Capability
       (CSIRC). NIST Special Publication 800-3, November, 1991

  [9]  Handbook for Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs),
       Moira J. West-Brown, Don Stikvoort, Klaus-Peter Kossakowski. -
       CMU/SEI-98-HB-001. - Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University,
       1998.

  [10] A Common Language for Computer Security Incidents by John D.
       Howard and Thomas A. Longstaff. -  Sandia Report: SAND98-8667,
       Sandia National Laboratories -
       http://www.cert.org/research/taxonomy_988667.pdf

  [11] Best Current Practice of incident classification and reporting
       schemes currently used by active CSIRTs. -
       http://www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf-csirt/i-
       taxonomy/docs/BCPreport1.rtf

  [12] Taxonomy of the Computer Security Incident related terminology -
       http://www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf-csirt/i-taxonomy/docs/i-
       taxonomy_terms.html

  [13] Multilingual Support in Internet/IT Applications. -
       http://www.terena.nl/projects/multiling/



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Acknowledgements:

  This document was discussed at the Incident Taxonomy and Description
  Working Group seminars (http://www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf-
  csirt/tf-csirt000929prg.html#itdwg) in the frame of TERENA Task Force
  TF-CSIRT (http://www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf-csirt/).  Incident
  Taxonomy and Description Working Group at TERENA can be contacted via
  the mailing lists <[email protected]> or <[email protected]>,
  archives are available correspondently at
  http://hypermail.terena.nl/incident-taxonomy-list/mail-archive/ and
  http://hypermail.terena.nl/iodef-list/mail-archive/

Authors' Addresses

  Jimmy Arvidsson
  Telia CERT

  EMail: [email protected]


  Andrew Cormack
  JANET-CERT

  EMail: [email protected]


  Yuri Demchenko
  TERENA

  EMail: [email protected]


  Jan Meijer
  SURFnet

  EMail: [email protected]















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