CERT stands for which entity?

• A. Center for Internet Security
• B. Carnegie Mellon University's "Computer Emergency Response Team"
• C. Cybersecurity Emergency Response Team
• D. Computer Emergency Response Team

Answer: (B)

This question is testing what CERT stands for and the organization most closely associated with that acronym. CERT stands for Computer Emergency Response Team, and the entity most commonly referred to by this acronym is Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Emergency Response Team, known as CERT/CC. The CERT Coordination Center at CMU was created in the late 1980s to serve as a centralized hub for coordinating the detection, analysis, and response to computer security incidents across networks, starting after the Morris worm incident. The other options describe different organizations or a generic description, but they do not reflect the CMU-originated CERT/CC.