№2, 2018

A MODEL FOR OPTIMAL PLANNING OF INFORMATION SECURITY INCIDENT RESPONSE OPERATIONS

Yadigar N. Imamverdiyev

A quick and adequate response to handling of information security incidents is critical for ensuring business continuity. To handle such incidents, special CERT commands are required, but the cost of maintaining them is a burden for most organizations, and they prefer to use the services of special CERT service providers. This study proposes a model for the optimal distribution of information security incident response operations between CERT groups; the model is formulated as an optimization problem, and differential evolution algorithm is developed to solve it  (pp.69-80).

Keywords: information security, incident response, incident handling, incident management, CERT, CSIRT, scheduling, differential evolution.
DOI : 10.25045/jpit.v09.i2.09
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