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WHOIS access for CSIRTs

Over recent months the GDPR has given extra weight to concerns – originally expressed by regulators fifteen years ago – about public access to information about individual registrants of DNS domains. This article considers the use of this WHOIS data by those handling information security incidents, and why this represents a benefit, rather than a […]

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Learning from Incidents

It’s only lunchtime on the first day of the FIRST Conference 2018, and already two talks have stressed the importance and value of reviewing incidents over both the short and long terms. In the very different contexts of an open science research lab (LBNL) and an online IPR-based business on IPR (Netflix), a common message […]