Since that time membership has continued to grow. Reaction to this incident was isolated and uncoordinated, resulting in much duplicated effort, and in conflicting solutions. Over the next two years, the number of teams continued to grow, each with its own purpose, funding, reporting requirements, and constituency. The interaction between these teams experienced difficulties due to differences in language, timezone, and international standards or conventions. Since that time, it has continued to grow and evolve in response to the changing needs of the incident response and security teams and their constituencies.
Many companies now rely on the Internet in their daily business transactions.
Incident response and security teams continue to form around the globe, covering a range of constituencies from whole countries, to multi-national organizations. Computer security incidents do not respect geographical, timezone, or administrative boundaries in the global Internet. Resolution of any computer security incident generally involves many sites, which may be located in various places around the world. Each incident response and security team can assist their local constituency and coordinate the appropriate response with other teams to provide a global solution to the problem. The increased ability to communicate with peer entity teams allows for faster resolution of computer security incidents, regardless of their source, destination, or transit path.