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Which Security Operations Center's goal is to provide incident handling to a country?
The correct answer is C. National CSIRT. A National CSIRT is specifically chartered to provide incident handling and response services at the national level, serving an entire country.
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Which Security Operations Center's goal is to provide incident handling to a country?
Options
- ACoordination Center
- BInternal CSIRT
- CNational CSIRT
- DAnalysis Center
How the community answered
(52 responses)- A2% (1)
- C94% (49)
- D4% (2)
Why each option
A National CSIRT is specifically chartered to provide incident handling and response services at the national level, serving an entire country.
A Coordination Center focuses on facilitating communication and coordination between multiple CSIRTs, not directly handling incidents for a country's population.
An Internal CSIRT serves a single organization such as a corporation or government agency, not an entire country.
A National CSIRT (Computer Security Incident Response Team) has a defined constituency of the entire nation, coordinating incident response across government agencies, critical infrastructure, and the general public within that country. Examples include US-CERT in the United States and CERT-FR in France. Their mandate is specifically to serve national-level cybersecurity incidents, distinguishing them from narrower organizational or sector-specific teams.
An Analysis Center specializes in examining artifacts, malware, and threat intelligence to produce analytical reports, not in delivering broad incident handling services to a national constituency.
Concept tested: CSIRT types and National CSIRT mandate
Source: https://www.first.org/education/FIRST_CSIRT_Services_Framework_v1.1.pdf
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