Why CERT
The first CERT was established in 1988 in the United States in response to the first major Internet incident – the spread of the first worm, later called “The Internet Worm”. CERT was established by ARPA (now DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, US Department of Defense) and then transferred to the management of Carnegie Mellon University. With the spread of the Internet around the world, similar organizations and services gradually began to appear outside the United States, and the original CERT was renamed the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC).
