The CERT was formed by DARPA in November 1988 in response to theneeds exhibited during the Internet worm incident. The CERTcharter is to work with the Internet community to facilitate itsresponse to computer security events involving Internet hosts, totake proactive steps to raise the community's awareness ofcomputer security issues, and to conduct research targeted atimproving the security of existing systems. CERT products andservices include 24-hour technical assistance for responding tocomputer security incidents, product vulnerability assistance,technical documents, and tutorials. In addition, the teammaintains a number of mailing lists (including one for CERTAdvisories), and provides an anonymous FTP server, at "cert.org",where security-related documents and tools are archived. The CERTmay be reached by email at "
[email protected]" and by telephone at+1-412-268-7090 (24-hour hotline). See also: Defense AdvancedResearch Projects Agency, worm. Configuration