Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) was the original computer security incident response team at the
United States Department of Energy
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear w ...
. CIAC was formed in February 1989, and jointly sponsored by the DOE Office of the CIO and the Air Force. The primary function of CIAC was, as the name implies, to advise people of computer incidents. Primarily, this means security vulnerabilities, virus and hoax alerts and similar
information security
Information security is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthorized or inappropriate access to data ...
concerns. CIAC was a founding member of
GFIRST, the Government Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams and
FIRST, an international incident response and security organization. CIAC published
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s and bulletins up until it was officially renamed to DOE-CIRC and relocated to
Las Vegas, Nevada
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in October 2008.
DOE Computer Incident Response Capability
References
External links
Official DOE-CIRC site.DOE Incident Management site.
Computer security organizations
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