Cyber Emergency Response Team for Bangladesh

Cyber Emergency Response Team (CERT) is one of the very important component at the national level for the protection and monitoring of cyber domain across the country. As the digital contents are increasing in Bangladesh so is its vulnerability. CERT has been included in the National Cyber Security Strategy and Digital Security Act 2018 but its existence is only at the rudimentary stage with the absence of its footprint at the operational level. This study presents a framework of CERT for Bangladesh considering its application at operational level. The factors considered in this model are status of readiness for CERT, the parties involved in the response mechanism and the procedures involved. The proposed model will present an effective CERT in the domain of digitization and information sharing and will guide to a comprehensive approach to address any cyber incident. This would not only help taking effective measures to mitigate the effect of any cyber-attack but also to increase the cyber readiness profile of the nation to detect, prevent or minimize the occurrence of cyber incidents.