Technical
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IT professionals are the guardians of Samoa's digital infrastructure. Access advanced insights, threat intelligence, incident response playbooks, and technical advisories tailored for security professionals defending networks and systems.
SamCERT publishes technical advisories and IOCs for verified IT and security professionals. All public resources below are TLP:CLEAR. For restricted threat intelligence, contact SamCERT directly.
Contact SamCERTResources for IT Practitioners
Technical advisories, best practices, and incident response resources for security professionals across Samoa's public and private sectors.
Ransomware for IT Specialists
Deep-dive into ransomware threat actor TTPs, encryption mechanisms, lateral movement patterns, and technical guidance on detection, containment, and recovery for IT teams.
Patch Management
A structured approach to identifying, testing, and deploying security patches across your environment — closing known vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them.
Securing Critical Infrastructure
Technical guidance on protecting essential services from cyberattacks — network segmentation, zero-trust access controls, anomaly detection, and resilience planning for critical systems.
Mitigating Denial-of-Service Attacks
Operational playbook for detecting, classifying, and mitigating DoS and DDoS attacks. Covers rate limiting, traffic filtering, upstream ISP coordination, and service restoration.
Preparing for Denial-of-Service Incidents
Proactive steps to reduce your organisation's exposure before a DoS attack occurs. Covers capacity planning, traffic baseline monitoring, scrubbing centre arrangements, and coordination with your ISP — so your team knows exactly what to do when resource exhaustion begins.