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This purpose of this paper is to examine the development of Warning, Advice and Reporting Points (WARPs) as part of the information sharing strategy for UK National Infrastructure. It identifies and discusses the origins of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) and Information Exchanges. It then reflects on the authors own experience of managing Warning, Advice and Reporting Points, defining and describing these important forums for information sharing in the UK information security community and beyond. One of the problems in protecting critical infrastructure is how to get the right information to the right people. The paper identifies key drivers for information sharing. It outlines the University of Wolverhampton involvement in the WARP programme since 2006 and the success that has been achieved creating and working with several WARPs in the public sector.
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Proctor, T. (2013). The Development of Warning, Advice and Reporting Points (WARPs) in UK National Infrastructure. In: Bologna, S., Hämmerli, B., Gritzalis, D., Wolthusen, S. (eds) Critical Information Infrastructure Security. CRITIS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6983. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41476-3_14
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