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TERENA compendium of national research and education networks in europe/services5.5 Security Incident ResponseSecurity Incident Response is increasingly being considered as vital to theend users. They expect NRENs to provide such services or to make sure thatsomebody else provides them.Table 5.5.1 summarises the information on whether security incidentresponse is provided by the NREN itself, or if it has been outsourced. OenComputer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) are formed to ensurea timely response to (potential) security threats. International collaborationis of key importance to CSIRTs. A precondition for such collaboration isthat CSIRTs have to be able to trust one another. In order to facilitate suchtrust relationships, TERENA has been instrumental in seing up the TrustedIntroducer scheme (see www.trusted-introducer.nl for more information).The table shows which NRENs have CSIRTs that are either accredited withthe scheme or candidates for accreditation (note that only the informationthat is at www.trusted-introducer.nl is <strong>full</strong>y up-to-date and authoritative).5.6 Bandwidth on DemandBandwidth on demand (point-to-point dedicated bandwidth services atlayer 2 or below) is being introduced as a new service as part of the GN2project. The following table provides information on how many NRENs areplanning to introduce such a service. Some NRENs have definite plans forthis, others would like to find out first what the demand is for such services.Others are not planning to introduce such a service.Approximately 25% of the NRENs currently offer such a service;approximately the same percentage is planning to introduce it in the nexttwo years, with a significant percentage of NRENs still in doubt.Graph 5.6.1 Bandwidth on Demand, EU/EFTA CountriesUnsure, 8Yes, 7The table clearly shows that there is still a large difference in this areabetween EU/EFTA NRENs and NRENs in other countries in the region. Nowthat many of these countries are getting better connections, we expect tosee more Accredited CSIRTs in the future in these countries as well.No, 7Yes, if demand, 1Yes, within two years, 5Table 5.5.1 Security Incident Response TeamsSecurity Incident Response by NREN OutsourcedEU/EFTA Countries 77% 23%(n=27) Accredited CSIRT: 58%Other Countries 94% 6%(n=15) Accredited CSIRT: 6%Graph 5.6.2 Bandwidth on Demand, Other CountriesUnsure, 3Yes, 4No, 3Yes, if demand, 1Yes, within two years, 566
TERENA compendium of national research and education networks in europe/services5.7 Grid Services 4Grid services have recently become an important area for NRENs. Projectssuch as EGEE and DEISA aim to introduce a production Grid service forscientific research purposes, making use of distributed computing services.In many cases, the NRENs provide the networking infrastructure for suchservices.Table 5.7.1 gives information on whether or not Grid services are currentlyrunning over the NREN’s network and if such services are planned over thenext year or two. The table also lists who provides the Grid service – eitherthe NREN itself, the institutions concerned together with the NREN, theconcerned institutions alone, discipline-based groups, virtual organisationsor some other body. The geographical extent of the service is also listed.The most striking element in the responses is that the uptake of Gridtechnology has widened very much beyond the initial high energy physicsand biomedical communities. All disciplines seem to be well represented.The answers in the following table are ‘now’ (service is currently running),‘planned’ or ‘-’, the NREN is not currently aware of the situation in thatdiscipline.The data show that Grid services are currently running in twenty ( or 71%)of the EU/EFTA NRENs (last year, the figure was 56%); this will rise to nearly100% over the next two years (with only Iceland and Slovakia not foreseeingGrids being developed in this time frame). Grid services are also running innine of the seventeen NRENs from other countries in the survey. Six moreNRENs from these countries foresee such services being developed in thenext two years.NREN support is involved in running the service in the great majorityof cases. The geographical extent of the service is in almost all casesinternational.Table 5.7.1 provides an overview of the disciplines that are running Gridenabledapplications. Note that many NRENs indicate that they are notaware of Grid services in certain disciplines. That does not necessarily meanthey do not exist; therefore, it seems clear that the responses given do notpresent the <strong>full</strong> picture.4Information for this section has been contributed by John Dyer, TERENA.67
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