Comparative Analysis on Incident Statistics for Year 2003: A Comparison between MyCERT and US CERT

This comparative analysis will analyze the Incidents Statistics 2003 reported to the Malaysian Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCERT), representing a developing country's CERT and the US Computer Emergency Response Team (US CERT), representing a developed country's CERT. The incidents analyzed will be include the analysis that are limited to critical incidents only which are Intrusion, Denial of Service, Malicious Codes and Hack Attempts. The analysis will compare both CERTs' statistics in terms of number of incidents reported, the trend in security incident and the similarity between both CERTs statistics. It will also looks into factors contributing to the difference in the number of incidents reported to both CERTs and the factors contributing to the different trend in security incidents for both CERTs. At the end of the analysis, some recommendations targeted for users/system administrators in developing countries are included in defending and handling incidents associated with the trend in the security incident.

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