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The Trusted Introducer offers the following services to accredited teams only:
- Maintenance of information provided by accredited CSIRTs, prompted by the TI in a 4-monthly cycle
- Access to the restricted part of the TI repository, featuring in-depth operational data of all accredited CSIRTs
- Access to the TI mailinglists open to accredited CSIRTs only, e.g. meant for discussion of open security issues within a trusted environment
- Access to value-added information available only for accredited CSIRTs, like easily downloadable contact information (e.g. for PDA integration) and PGP key-rings
- Automatic registration of a so-called IRT-object in the RIPE database corresponding with your CSIRT: the aim there is a direct mapping between your constituency’s IP number ranges and your CSIRT’s contact data
- PGP key-signing by the TI of your CSIRT’s team key and team representative key
- Additional services as of January 2005: the TI is funded and continuously reviewed by its contributors, the accredited CSIRTs, and these contributors have decided on the addition of the following services (for accredited teams only):
- X.509 based TI-PKI (public key infrastructure) for secure web and mail purposes
- secure sharing of incident statistics
- automatic re-encrypting mail gateway (cross protocol S/MIME, PGP, GPG)
- in-band peer-to-all alerting using the re-encrypting mail gateway
- out-of-band voicemail/sms based peer-to-all alerting
TI offers the following public services:
- Storing of contact-information provided by non-accredited European CSIRTs "as is"
- Public access to the non-restricted part of the TI repository, featuring
contact-information on European CSIRTs (only maintained for accredited teams)
- Information on the TI, templates to submit CSIRT contact-information to the TI and
a form to apply for "accreditation"
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