Blackthorn CERT
Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) around the world need to be able to manage their reactive activities; such as incidents & special investigations, and proactive activities; such as assessments, exercises and campaigns as effectively as possible.
The Blackthorn CERT activity pack is designed out-of-the-box by experts from a range of CERTs to be the ideal solution for managing the day-to-day work of a typical CERT.
Blackthorn CERT enables all the team members to collaborate effectively, across any time-zone and with a complete audit trail of their actions in managing their activities. It provides a range of dashboards that give real-time information on the status of an activity.
With the Blackthorn CERT activity pack your team can:
- Manage incidents with full contemporaneous record keeping
- Associate hashed evidence to you incidents with ease
- Undertake repeatable responses using adaptive workflow templates
- Include your constituency in the collaboration and communication process with automated notification
- Determine a situation graphically using the Blackthorn Canvas
- Undertake a range of remedial activities to appraise recommended control improvements, manage awareness activities and undertake proactive test plans
- Implement a complete virtuous management system following guidance laid down by SANS, FIRST, CERT/CC and other sources of good practice
- Optionally exchange key information with other CERTs, securely and immediately
Blackthorn CERT is the complete activity management environment that you have been looking for. It will enable you involve key stakeholders and supporters in your constituency to have tangible visibility of the quality service you provide.








