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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>About FIRST</title><link>http://www.first.org/newsroom/news/about.html</link><atom:link href="http://www.first.org/newsroom/news/about.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><description>Information about FIRST organization, history and operational framework</description><dc:publisher>FIRST.org, Inc</dc:publisher><copyright>© 1995-2008 by FIRST.org, Inc.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:27:00 +0100</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:30:03 +0100</lastBuildDate><generator>Tecnodesign</generator><language>en-us</language><ttl>20</ttl><image><title>About FIRST</title><link>http://www.first.org/newsroom/news/about.html</link><url>http://www.first.org/_images/first-news.png</url></image><item><title>FIRST would like to welcome two new teams this month!  </title><link>http://www.first.org/members/teams</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:40402</guid><description>The United Arab Emirates Computer Emergency Response Team (aeCERT) sponsored by Symantec CERT (SymCERT) and MyCERT and Internet Identity (IID), USA sponsored by Boeing (BCERT) and AusCERT.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:27:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Welcome to the new FIRST SC and Board of Directors members</title><link>http://www.first.org/about/organization/directors.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:40399</guid><description>FIRST would like to welcome the new members of the FIRST Steering Committee and FIRST.org Inc Board of Directors: Robert Schischka of CERT.at (Austria) and Reneaué Railton of Cisco (USA).  We would also like to welcome back our re-elected members: Chris Gibson of Citi CIRT (USA/UK), Pete Allor of IBM (USA) and Steve Adegbite of Microsoft (USA) who was re-elected as the SC Chair. 

Continuing for another year will be Kurt Sauer of Spinlock Technologies (Japan), Tom Mullen of BT (UK), Yurie Ito of ICANN/JPCERT/CC (Japan), Ken van Wyk of KRvW Associates (USA) and Jordi Aguila of e-LC CSIRT (Spain).

Special thanks to Jeff Boerio of Intel for interest in running -- and to Derrick Scholl and Scott McIntyre for their years of service to FIRST!</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:21:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>FIRST welcomes three new teams</title><link>http://www.first.org/members/teams/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:40390</guid><description>CERT Estonia (CERT-EE) sponsored by SI-CERT and CERT-FI; HSBC Rapid Emergency Action Crisis Team (REACT), USA  sponsored by Citi CIRT and Goldman Sachs and Trustwave SpiderLabs CIRT (TWSL-CIRT), USA sponsored by NU-CERT and IBM.  Please join us in welcoming the new teams and thanking their sponsors!</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:21:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>FIRST Welcomes Neustar to the Sponsorship Team!</title><link>http://www.neustar.biz/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:40388</guid><description>FIRST would like to welcome Neustar to the 2010 Sponsorship Team! Neustar joins us as a Gold Sponsor and will also be exhibiting at the conference. This is Neustar's first time sponsoring the Annual FIRST Conference.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:16:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>FIRST welcomes four new teams in January</title><link>http://www.first.org/members/teams/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:40384</guid><description>CERT BWI (Germany) sponsored by CERTBw (CERT German Armed Forces) and Siemens CERT; Computer Emergency Response Team of the Swiss Government (GovCERT.ch), Switzerland sponsored by CERT-Bund and IP+ CERT;  Research In Motion, Corporate Security - Information Security Operations Centre (RIM CS-ISOC), Canada sponsored by TDBFG CSIRT and Bell IPCR;  CERT Societe Generale (CERT SG), France sponsored by CERTA and dbCERT.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:14:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>March 2008 Technical Colloquium latest program released</title><link>http://www.first.org/events/colloquia/mar2008/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:38444</guid><description>Now the latest program agenda of Joint Workshop on Security, and FIRST Technical Colloquium 2008 in Tokyo has been updated and published. We are looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible in one of the best season of the year in Tokyo, Japan!</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>The 3rd Annual Joint TF-CSIRT and FIRST TC kicked off in Prague</title><link>http://www.first.org/events/colloquia/jan2008/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:110</guid><description>A total of 123 registrants from 28 different countries came together for the 23rd TF-CSIRT meeting on today. 66 different FIRST teams and TERENA members were able to participate in this event hosted by Sun Microsystems. The FIRST/TF-CSIRT Seminar will continue on Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:04:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>One more team from Australia within FIRST</title><link>http://www.first.org/members/teams/nab_itsar/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:104</guid><description>NAB ITSAR - National Australian Bank IT Security Assessment and Response - has recently affiliated to FIRST as a full member. FIRST thanks the sponsors (AusCERT and
VeriSign) for their efforts, and look forward to the active participation of the new member!
</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>NCSIRT, FSLab and YIRD are the newest members in FIRST</title><link>http://www.first.org/members/teams/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:105</guid><description>NRI SecureTechnologies Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCSIRT), F-Secure Security Labs (FSLab) and Yahoo! Incident Response Division (YIRD) have joined FIRST as full members. FIRST thanks the sponsors for their efforts, and look forward to the active participation of the new members!</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>FIRST community has received a new Liaison Member</title><link>http://www.first.org/members/liaisons/david_mortman/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:106</guid><description>David Mortman has recently affiliated to FIRST as a liaison member. FIRST thanks the sponsor Team Cymru for its support and look forward to the active participation of the new member!</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>CCN-CERT and Secunia CSIRT are the newest members in FIRST</title><link>http://www.first.org/members/teams/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:107</guid><description>The Spanish Governmental National Cryptology Center CSIRT (CCN-CERT) and the Secunia CSIRT (Secunia Research) have joined FIRST as full members. FIRST thanks the sponsors for their efforts and look forward to the active participation of the new members!</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Crossing Borders: Towards the Globalization of Security</title><link>http://www.first.org/conference/2008/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:87</guid><description>Debate the challenges of transnational ethics and safety and learn how to transform yourself technically, politically, legally and efficiently into a truly global force for Internet security at the 20th Annual FIRST Conference in Vancouver, Canada.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:30:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>FIRST Steering Committee &#x26; Board of Directors News Channel Released</title><link>https://members.first.org/events/meetings/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:67</guid><description>Important decisions taken or discussions held on SC/Board meetings regarding membership, policies and operational issues of FIRST will be communicated by this new channel. [FIRST Members Only].</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>CERT-TCC and CSIRT ANTEL are the newest members in FIRST</title><link>http://www.first.org/members/teams/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:61</guid><description>The Tunisian CERT Coordination Center (CERT-TCC) and Uruguay's Telecommunications Agency CSIRT (CSIRT ANTEL) have joined FIRST as full members. FIRST thanks the sponsors for their efforts, and look forward to active participation of the new members!</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>One more team from Canada within FIRST</title><link>http://www.first.org/members/teams/cybercirt/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:57</guid><description>CyberCIRT - Cyberklix Computer Incident Response Team - has recently affiliated to FIRST as a full member. FIRST thanks the sponsors (TDBFG CSIRT and BMO-ISIRT) for their efforts, and look forward to active participation of the new member!</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:30:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>CERT/CC sets the pace for 2007 sponsorship</title><link>http://www.first.org/conference/2007/sponsors/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:55</guid><description>CERT/CC was the first to come in with sponsorship this year and they did so with a splash at the Platinum level. Also joining FIRST and the FIRST Sponsorship Team at the Silver level is Q-CERT from Qatar.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:48:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>BT takes the Diamond!</title><link>http://www.first.org/conference/2007/sponsors/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:54</guid><description>British Telecom, a member of the Sponsorship Team since 1998, is back as the top sponsor. Joining BT are four NEW additions Telefónica, INTECO, Endeavor and BFK and new levels for IBM ISS, Assuria and E-Secure-IT. Our thanks to all of the sponsors.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Spanish companies show support for the 2007 FIRST Conference in Seville</title><link>http://www.first.org/conference/2007/sponsors/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:53</guid><description>RedIris, La Caixa and Panda Software are now sponsoring our conference. Our thanks to all of our current sponsors for their valuable support. There are still sponsorship opportunities available, please visit the Conference Sponsorship web page.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>19th FIRST Annual Conference program schedule released</title><link>http://www.first.org/conference/2007/program/schedule.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:52</guid><description>Details on the conference program are available now. Preview the schedule on-line or download the printable pdf version, and register now for this unique event in Seville, Spain!</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Register now for April TC in Doha, Qatar</title><link>http://www.first.org/events/colloquia/apr2007/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">firstnews:51</guid><description>Hosted by Q-CERT from 12-16 April 2007, this TC marks the inaugural FIRST event in the Middle East region. More information about the program and location are available at FIRST website. FIRST Members may register online to attend to the event</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:00:00 +0100</pubDate></item></channel></rss>