Proactive Services

The UniMS-CERT coordinates and maintains in cooperation with the CIT the following services to the extent possible depending on its resources:

Information Services

• List of departmental IT security contacts [de], administrative and technical.
• Mailing lists to inform security contacts of new information relevant to their computing environments. These lists will be available only to IT security officers (IV-SB) and system administrators of Münster University.
• Provision of documentations and how-to guides for security tools for system administrators.
• Synthesis and forwarding of IT security related information from various external sources, e.g. mailing lists. The resulting information will be made available either on the restricted mailing list or on the website, depending on their sensitivity and urgency.
• Provision of a malware analysis service for suspicious files, accessible for the University of Münster community.

Auditing Services

• Regularly performed vulnerability scans on exposed systems.
• Provision of a vulnerability scan [de] on request to system administrators of University of Münster.
• Security level assignments in cooperation with the information security office will be conducted.

Archiving and Logging Services

• Central logging service for machines capable of Syslog-style remote logging. Incoming log entries will be watched by an automated log analysis program, and events or trends indicative of a potential security problem will be reported to the affected system administrators.
• Archiving of incident related information. This data will be used for periodical generation of statistics related to IT security at the University of Münster.