Security Incidents: RE: Incident Response Database

["Chris Krough" <ckrough () vet upenn edu>]

We use Cerberus. It's a very nice system.

www.cerberusweb.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Jason M. Leonard [mailto:fuzz () ldc upenn edu] 
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 11:18 AM
To: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Cc: Jason May; incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Incident Response Database 


On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:08:32 PST, Jason May <jaymay75 () yahoo com>  said:
> > Does anyone have any suggestions on a good Incident Response 
> > tracking database for tracking Incidents.  We were looking at the 
> > CIRDB from Purdue, but I just wanted to know if there was anything 
> > else out there.
> We've never encountered any sort of tracking that we couldn't do well 
> with Remedy.  Two caveats:
>
> 1) It's pricey.
> 2) Remedy's strength is its customization.  That's also it's weakness.
> We're lucky enough to have several people on staff who know Remedy's 
> innards really well.
>
> We already use it for our main help desk and network problem ticket 
> system for a rather large network, so incident response isn't a big 
> reach.  If you aren't already using it in your shop, installing it 
> just for incident response would probably be overkill...
We use RT (Request Tracker) for our help desk and trouble ticket system.
It works great for all sorts of tracking and it's pretty handy for managing
non-human email accounts, as well.  Plus it's free.

http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/


:Fuzz

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