Appointing Nodal Officer as per the Information Technology(Procedure and safeguards for Blocking for Access of Information by Public) Rules, 2009

In Government Order No. G.O. (Rt) No. 200/2010/ITD dt. 20/08/2010 Government have appointed Principal Secretary / Secretary, Information Technology Department as the Nodal Officer as per the Information Technology (Procedures and safeguards for Blocking for Access of Information by Public) Rules, 2009.

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Setting up of CERT-Kerala

Setting up of CERT-Kerala and appointment of Sri. N. Krishnan as the Director, CERT-Kerala

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Security Alerts

• Large scale propagation of Conficker/ Downadup worm  [13.03.2009]

Security Guidelines issued by CERT-IN

CERT-In Security Guidelines CISG-2008-01 (31 December 2008) Guidelines for Auditing and Logging

This guideline attempts to provide some insights into the issues related to Auditing and Log Management and suggest best practices for enabling and maintaining Auditing and logging on Windows hosts, Linux hosts, Microsoft IIS Web server, Apache Web server, Oracle 10g Database Server and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Implementation of these best practices will enable administrators to acquire vital information to identify and respond to the computer security incidents.

CERT-In Security Guidelines CISG-2006-01 (11th October 2006) Securing IIS 6.0 Web Server

A secure web server provides a foundation for the organization’s hosting environment, where its configuration plays a critical role in the overall security of the Web applications and services . This guideline provides a step-by-step approach to secure the IIS 6.0 Web Server hosted on Windows 2003.

CERT-In Security Guidelines CISG-2005-03 (31st December 2005) Securing Home Computers

This document is intended to prescribe basic guidelines to the home computer users working with computer systems running Windows Operating System.  The basic purpose of this document is to create awareness about computer security issues among home computer users and suggest them the tasks to be performed to secure their computer systems to protect their information assets.

CERT-In Security Guidelines CISG-2005-02 (18th May 2005) RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Minimization and Hardening Guidelines

This document discusses about hardening and securing RHEL 3.0 server, Kernel version 2.4. The emphasis is laid on securing the server by installing the minimal required packages only. Server with this configuration can be extended for using as a web or mail server by adding the additional packages as per requirement.

CERT-In Security Guidelines CISG-2005-01 (1st March 2005) Microsoft SQL Server Security Guidelines

Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most widely used RDBMS. This paper is an attempt to guide database administrators to securely configure and protect the MS SQL database server.