CERT NRW (DE)

Constituency Type

• Government

Country of constituency

• Germany

ASNs, Domains, IP ranges

• 43066
• *.nrw.de
• 93.184.128.0/20

Computer Emergency Response Team for all government agencies and institutions of the German federal state administration of North Rhine-Westphalia that are connected to the state administration's network (Landesverwaltungsnetz). Constituents are all ministries, supreme federal state authorities and associated public service offices/agencies of the state administration excluding municipal administrations. CERT NRWs mission is to support the public administration of North Rhine-Westfalia prevent, protect and defend against intentional and malicious attacks that could harm or hamper the confidentiality, integrity or availabilty of their information or information technology assets as well as to assist investigations of information security incidents. In addition to providing below listed services, CERT NRW is authorised to probe and examine systems, software, websites and other internet services within the below IP range and additional agreed on scopes (in writing) for vulnerabilities and security weaknesses and to monitor network boundaries in said scopes for attacks, breaches and other threats for information security, as well as collect and in case of an indication/alert to record data needed for further investigation.