15 UK. The starting position is always that disclosing a vulnerability will be in the national interest. Advice and Guidance for Organisations: Over the past two years the NCSC has been working on the Vulnerability Co-ordination Pilot. The aim of the pilot is to identify the best way to take an organisation through the process of establishing their own vulnerability disclosure process. Over the next year or so, the NCSC will provide more information regarding the steps required to create an organisation-wide vulnerability disclosure process. This will include providing guidance for both the private and public sectors. Vulnerability Reporting: The NCSC has recently launched its vulnerability reporting service16, which acknowledges the crucial role security researchers play in helping to secure UK government web services. The quickest way to remediate a security vulnerability is to report it to the system owner. However as it can be hard to find the right contact, so researchers can now report the vulnerability to us (NCSC). Norm 11 (UNGGE 2015 report, paragraph 13k) – States should not conduct or knowingly support activity to harm the information systems of another State’s authorized emergency response teams (sometimes known as CERTS or CSIRTS). A State should not use authorized emergency response teams to engage in malicious international activity; As a responsible state, the United Kingdom agrees a state should not conduct activity in relation to its own CERT or that of any other state which would be contrary to its legal obligations. The UK has provided advice, training and exercises to enable the creation and maintenance of national Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRT). In addition, the UK has supported international fora, funding e.g. the Forum of Incident Response & Security Teams (FIRST), to help them develop training material. For example, in the Americas, grants to the OAS helped them launch a virtual platform for the Americas CSIRT network (CSIRTAmericas.org) in September 2016. As of December 2017, the national CSIRTs of 16 countries were members of the platform network. The project also supported a training course in incident management for 61 government officials from 13 OAS member states; a set of cyber challenges for 265 participants from 18 OAS member states during the International CyberEx 2016; and another cyber exercise for 54 teams from 17 member states during the International CyberEx 2017. Date: 05/09/2019 16 https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/vulnerability-reporting