With the daily growth in internet and networks usage,more amount of organizational information is transmitted via computer networks. Having this fact in mind would result to pay more attention on protecting organizational information. Lack of sufficient knowledge in information security would expose important information in danger. Securing the organization must be implemented in various levels (from executives to ordinary employees). Therefore training employees,personnel and network administrators of organizations about topics related to network and computer security can play an essential role in protecting the organizations privacy. Besides training organizational staff,IT infrastructure must be secured. This includes software,hardware and service hardening. But still having a secure IT system in any time doesn’t mean having secure IT system forever. Security policies also must be updated with the daily pace of security threats.
Managing all the above processes is both critical and hard. Handling such tasks needs more than a network administrator or even an IT security division. This would lead to establish IT security firms. As a result,in Iran the Research faculty of Information Technology associated with Iran Telecommunication Research Center has created Computer Emergency Response Teams. These teams known as APA (Academic Protection and Awareness) were established in selected universities. APA Center located at Isfahan University of Technology started operation in 2007 with the intention of providing service in the fields of network security and network disorders. This center is a network research group affiliated to the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Isfahan University of Technology and consists of experienced faculty members and top graduate students in the field of network and security.

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