Mission statement

(updated: January 18th 2005)

The main goal of PIONIER-CERT (former: POL34-CERT) is to provide a sufficient quality of response to all security incidents involving computers connected to PIONIER (and POL34/622). Therefore such a statement covers two possible cases: the first one with a site connected to PIONIER (and POL34/622) as a victim of abuse and the second with a site connected to PIONIER (and POL34/622) as an actual source of abuse. PIONIER-CERT is to be an authoritative representative of PIONIER (and POL34/622) site in both cases.

The main practical goals of PIONIER-CERT are to provide:

• adequate technical support while handling security incidents and recovering from their consequences,
• a complex co-ordination of all responses to an incident with special emphasis on exchanging information between various interested parties,
• valuable educational materials aimed at increasing the awareness of security as well as improving the overall knowledge of security techniques among the members of the constituency.