Useful articles

SWISS WARPs

The Crisis and Risk Network centre at ETHZ, the Swiss Institute responsible for publishing the widely acclaimed International CIIP Handbook, amongst other things, has just released a very interesting study into information security in industry. It can be found on the site of MELANI ( NISCC’s nearest equivalent in Switzerland; the site has an English version) at ETHZ http://www.crn.ethz.ch/.

Not only is the study very readable and interesting, it contains recommendations for establishing WARPs in Switzerland. Useful collateral for a business case perhaps ?

Other articles can be found below:

UKERNA (now JANET) www.ja.net/company/about.html have produced the following article explaining the relationship between WARPs and Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) which appeared in the March 2005 edition of the NISCC quarterly.

WARPs and CSIRTs, improving security together (March 2005)

ENISA www.enisa.europa.eu have produced the following article on WARPs for their March 2006 ENISA quarterly.

The evolution of WARPs (March 2006)

The following article was written in May 2006 by Dr Bob Askwith, Senior Lecturer at John Moores University Liverpool. Bob is the project manager for both the NWEWARP and NWGWARP.

WARP Case Study - Experience in setting up a WARP (May 2006)

A case study on how the London Connects WARP member forums, together with MS Sharepoint, have created an effective Advice Brokering service for LCWARP, is described below:

Case study - London Connects Advice Brokering (V1.1 November 2006)

A case study on how the Mid Yorkshire Chamber ( MYCCI) WARP operator was able to help warn WARP members of a specific Telecommunications related fraud as part of the MYSWARP Trusted Sharing service. Using the peer to peer sharing capabilities of FWA, this was also shared with other WARPs.

Case study - Mid Yorkshire Chamber Trusted Sharing (V1.1 December 2006)

WARPs are front page news in the December 2006 edition of Government Computing (GC) magazine. Written by Steve Mathieson, it gives a good update on WARPs. Thanks to both GC magazine and Steve Mathieson for agreement to include this article in the Toolbox.

Government Computing - WARP article (December 2006)

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WARP Films

The film company GBTV have produced a 5 minute film, sponsored by Microsoft, on WARPs in local government.

If you have Windows media player you can play the film directly by clicking below.

NB Although it is a large file, it does support streaming so it will start to play before it has all downloaded.

WARP movie - ~ (18,000 KB)

These articles and download files are also available elsewhere in the site - to see what is new on the site look in the Site updates page.

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