Autonomous University of Madrid

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CERT-UAM is the incident response team of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
A CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) is an expert group that focuses on preventing, detecting, and responding to security incidents affecting the Information Technology systems.
Its goal is to reduce the damage to those systems and assure the continuity of the IT services.
The CERT-UAM helps improve the security of the IT services being offered and the security of the users of those services, detecting possible incidents and dealing with them.
It also provides a unique contact point to report, identify, and analyze the impact and the threats of the incident and propose solutions and mitigation strategies.
Its main goal is the early detection of security incidents that may compromise the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the coordination in incident management.
It also establishes proactive security measures, notifies possible problems, gives technical information and advice, and training IT security incidents.
CERT-UAM has offered the services are:
Centralized management of security incidents. Single point of contact for security incidents. Expert analysis and advice in response to security incidents on the network and IT systems of the university.
Automatic detection and response to security incidents.
Cyber threats early warning. Spreading information to the whole university of threats that may seriously affect the IT systems, like serious vulnerabilities in everyday applications, phishing e-mail attacks…
Training and raising awareness. Development of awareness campaigns and training actions in cybersecurity, aimed at risk management and improving the security of the IT systems of the university

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