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Training should focus on providing secure services to the user community. This includes but is not limited to secure authentication and authorization practices, recognizing breaches, scanning for vulnerabilities, change management, patching, logging, intrusion detection, incident response, disaster recovery, and forensic practices.

Service lifecycle and secure practices during of each stage should be covered in-depth. These stages include requirement gathering, technology investigation, development, testing, deployment, production operation and retirement. It should also cover transitioning between stages.

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Forensic scientists collect, preserve, and analyze scientific evidence during the course of an investigation. Forensics includes but is not limited to system and user behaviour, file system content, communication patterns etc. There are a lot of techniques and tools out there, which can help to investigate on an suspicious activity within the system. The trainings should help system and network admins to doing their day to day business with the safeness on board to being wapponed against threads coming from the outside world.

 

 Incident response and analysis

Any outward facing service provides a potential attack surface. Incidents should be expected by users, administrators and response teams. Proper response and analysis is critical to reduce continued risk. All levels of an E-Infrastructure should know exactly how to handle an incident. This starts with what to do with the service in question to preserve important forensic information, who to contact in event of a breach or attack, how to limit unfavorable consequences, and how to notify the community of the incident. This will also include contacting collaborating E-Infrastructures to be sure they are not also affected by the breach or attack.

 

Training should focus on properly handling security events.

 Contingency planning and disaster recovery

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