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This is version 0.1, draft 2021/07/14
Notifications of updates are submitted to the eduGAIN Steering Group mailing list edugain-sg@lists.geant.org. The eduGAIN Steering Group mailing list is composed of all the delegates and deputies of the eduGAIN participants, the subscription is managed by the eduGAIN Service. The mailing list is not moderated.
The current version of this CSIRT description document is available from the eduGAIN-CSIRT WWW site; its URL is https://edugain.org/edugain-security/
Please make sure you are using the latest version.
This document has been signed with the eduGAIN-CSIRTs PGP key. The signatures are also on our Web site, under: https://edugain.org/edugain-security/
eduGAIN-CSIRT: The eduGAIN Computer Security Incident Response Team.
eduGAIN-CSIRT
Hoekenrode 3
6th floor
1102 BR Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Europe/Amsterdam (GMT+0100, and GMT+0200 from April to October)
+44 1223 733033
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Not applicable
abuse@edugain.org This address can be used to report all security incidents which relate to the eduGAIN participants. This is a mail alias that relays mail to the human(s) on duty for the eduGAIN-CSIRT.
The eduGAIN-CSIRT has a PGP key, whose KeyID is CE43BCB8 and whose fingerprint is
F9FF B82B 9700 72D1 F753 25CF 5E3C 31D7 CE43 BCB8.
The key and its signatures can be found at the usual large public keyservers.
The eduGAIN-CSIRT team is coordinated by the eduGAIN-CSIRT security officer and it is composed by security officers and experts from the constituent participants. The current team consists of the following persons:
General information about eduGAIN security is in https://edugain.org/edugain-security/
The eduGAIN-CSIRTs hours of operation are generally restricted to regular business hours (09:00-17:00 (CET/CEST)) Monday to Friday except holidays).
The eduGAIN CSIRT may also provide support outside business hours on a best effort basis.
The eduGAIN CSIRT provides a central contact and support point for security incidents, and it will work in close collaboration with Federation Operators to coordinate the investigation and resolution of suspected security incidents at the inter-federation level.
eduGAIN consists of identity federations, which which members are the federation participants, an association of organizations that exchange information as appropriate about their users and resources to enable collaborations and transactions. With regard to security incident response the identity and service providers (IdP and SP) registered in a federation.
The eduGAIN constituency consists of the eduGAIN participants, see https://technical.edugain.org/status
eduGAIN-CSIRT is part of eduGAIN.org.
eduGAIN-CSIRT is authorized by the eduGAIN Steering Group to coordinate incident response at the inter-federation level.
The eduGAIN policy framework is in:
https://technical.edugain.org/doc/eduGAIN-Declaration-v2bis-web.pdf
The constitution of the eduGAIN service is in https://technical.edugain.org/doc/eduGAIN-Constitution-v3ter-web.pdf
eduGAIN-CSIRT aims to respond to incident reports within 4 office hours.
The eduGAIN Security Team closely collaborates with the Identity Federations’ security operators and the National Research and Education Network CSIRTs and CERTs in eduGAIN to ensures that all security incidents are investigated as fully as possible.
The roles and interactions of the different entities relevant to incident response within eduGAIN are described in the
Security Incident Response Handbook Feedback
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eduGAIN-CSIRT reports to the eduGAIN Steering Group (eSG).
ALL incoming information is handled confidentially by eduGAIN-CSIRT, regardless of its priority.
eduGAIN-CSIRT supports the Information Sharing Traffic Light Protocol (ISTLP – see https://www.trusted-introducer.org/ISTLPv11.pdf) - information that comes in with the tags WHITE, GREEN, AMBER or RED will be handled appropriately.
eduGAIN-CSIRT will use the information you provide to help solve security incidents affecting eduGAIN. This means that by default the information will be distributed further to the appropriate parties – but only on a need-to-know base, and preferably anonymized.
eduGAIN-CSIRTs major IT security incident management function is incident coordination across eduGAIN federations.
eduGAIN-CSIRT will support the eduGAIN participants investigating whether indeed an incident occurred and in case, determining the extent of the incident. This ranges from a single entity, to multiple federations affected.
eduGAIN is a federation of identity federations, in which different organizations operate SPs and IdPs. Usually the mandate and scope of the SPs IdPs security teams are limited to the home organization. The same holds for the federations participating in eduGAIN. eduGAN-CSIRT will organize the security incident communications across affected participants and coordinate the local response activities to allow for an efficient containment and subsequently resolution of security incidents.
The incident resolution is ultimately the task of the organizations responsible for the end entities in eduGAIN (Service providers (SP), Identity Providers (IdP)). If possible, edugain-CSIRT will support the end entities with in coordination with the Federations on request.
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Incident Report templates can be found in: https://aarc-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/DNA3.2-Security-Incident-Response-Procedure-v1.0.pdf
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While every precaution will be taken in the preparation of information, notifications and alerts, eduGAIN-CSIRT assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained within.