Incident Response Teams (IRTs) initially evolved in response to the growing threat of viruses and hacker attempts. In late 1988, a worm infected nearly 10 percent of the computers existing on the Internet. This was the first well-publicized example of how a small program could cause such extensive damage. (Warning: here come the acronyms...) As a result, the first official Incident Response Team, Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), was born through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). By the end of 1990, 11 teams, including CERT and the Computer Incident Advisory Committee (CIAC), created an international organization, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) to communicate and coordinate between teams.
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