Security

DANTE's involvement in the provision of security services evolved between 1996 and mid-1998 from piloting a pilot EuroCERT service (in partnership with UKERNA) to the launch of in-house security services to its own customers under the name DANCERT.

Milestones	December 1996: TERENA awards DANTE and UKERNA partnership one-year contract for the set-up of a pilot European Security Incident Response Coordination Service. October 1996: DANTE becomes FIRST liaison member. May 1997: start of the EuroCERT pilot. January 1998: TERENA accepts proposal by UKERNA for the provision of an incident co-ordination service, to start in May 1998. May 1998: pilot EuroCERT ends, EuroCERT service by UKERNA starts. June 1998: DANTE establishes DANCERT for its own customers. September 1999: End ofEuroCERT.
Documents	28th February 2001 Security developments as reported in TWoD (23 kB) 30th March 2001 Tackling Network DoS on Transit Networks (77 kB) David Harmelin, March 2001