Submission form

The FIRST conference ( https://www.first.org/conference/2002/) brings together IT managers, system and network administrators, security specialists, academics, security solutions vendors, CSIRT personnel and anyone interested in

• the most advanced techniques in detecting and responding to computer security incidents
• the latest improvements in computer security tools, methodologies, and practice
• sharing their views and experiences with those in the computer security incident response field

The conference will discuss the most recent practical issues in computer and network security, focusing on incident response.

The program committee solicits original contributions on the following topics:

• Incident Response
  Specific Incidents:
  • large computer virus outbreaks
  • Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) attacks
  • Privacy and Intellectual Property incidents
  • insider incident response
  General Issues:
  
  • intrusion detection, analysis, and response automation
  • collecting evidence
  • computer and network forensics
  
  
• CSIRT Operation and Tools
  • CSIRT Best Practices
  • automation of CSIRT operations
  • informing customers of new security threats (vulnerabilities, exploitation tools, viruses, etc.)
  • vulnerability analysis and advisory process
  • drafting incident response and security policies
  • experience with security tools, both commercial and free, both experimental and stable
  • new approaches to attack analysis
  • OS-specific log analysis tools
  • multi-source intrusion detection analysis
  
  
• Response Team Cooperation and Legal Issues
  • coordinating international incident handling
  • trust relationships in incident response
  • international legal and liability in incident response
  • dealing with black hats
  
  
• New Technologies, New Vulnerabilities
  • impact of new technologies (IPSEC and others) on incident response
  • vulnerabilities in WAP enabled web applications
  • vulnerabilities in PDA and Pocket PC's
  • forensics on wireless devices
  • experiences with deploying VoIP
  • commercial shopping and banking systems
  
  
• Other Topics
  • competition, espionage, and information warfare
  • secure system and network administration
  • secure programming techniques and practices
  • Internet service providers and security
  • intruder profiling
  • outsourcing security -- managed security services

• The first track is oriented toward IT managers and will deal with topics such as drafting security policies incorporating policies for incident response, computer forensics, setting up security infrastructures, etc.

• The second track is oriented toward technical staff and will provide in-depth information on security tools, designing security architectures, intrusion detection and monitoring tools, web security, etc. - in particular COMPUTER FORENSICS is a special interest topic this year.

• The third track is tailored for people interested in building and organizing an incident response team or related services like security advisories, vulnerability analysis, etc.

Proposals are solicited from experts interested in giving a tutorial. Tutorials may be half or full day in length and can cover topics either at an introductory or advanced level.

All tutorial submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should email the completed submission form (attached below) to tuto2002@first.org.

Individuals interested in submitting tutorial proposals are encouraged to contact the program chair before the deadline to discuss the proposed content.

Panel Submission

All panel submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should e-mail the completed submission form (attached below) to panel2002@first.org.

A reduction of the conference fee will be offered to panel organizers.

Paper Submission

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should email a version of their paper and the completed submission form (attached below) to paper2002@first.org.

Authors will receive an immediate notification of the successful receipt of the file containing their paper. Subsequently, a second notification of receipt will be sent after the paper has been printed successfully.

A reduction of the conference fee will be offered to one author of each accepted paper.

Process of Selection

Submissions received after the deadline will not be considered unless an extension has been granted. Authors must obtain employer, client, or government releases prior to submitting the final manuscript.

Accepted papers will be presented by their authors and will be published in the conference proceedings. The proceedings are provided free of charge to conference attendees. Additional copies will be available for purchase at the conference.

Copyright

FIRST requires a non exclusive copyright license for all the papers presented at the conference and for the presentation material. This includes potential distribution on a conference CD and/or the FIRST website.

Important Dates

Note that tutorial and panel proposals, as well as papers (or detailed syntheses, as described above) are expected to arrive prior to the submission deadline (NOVEMBER 16) in order to be considered.

Questions

• paper2002@first.org
• tuto2002@first.org
• panel2002@first.org