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15th Annual Computer Security
Incident Handling Conference
The Westin, Ottawa
Ontario, Canada
June 22-27, 2003
This conference is sponsored by First.Org, Inc.

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FIRST Conferences Sponsorship Opportunities

The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), will hold its 15th annual international conference in Ottawa, Canada, June 22 - 27, 2003. Previous FIRST conferences have attracted well over 300 attendees from more than 30 countries. The 15th FIRST conference will continue to promote FIRST organization goals of worldwide coordination and cooperation.

Attendance will include representatives from FIRST (currently over 125 member teams) in addition to policy and decision makers, security technology innovators, site security contacts, and system and network administrators. The combined international constituency served by the FIRST member teams alone is enormous, reaching into the millions. The majority of the teams and organizations represented at the conference suggest security strategies, provide technical solutions to security problems, and deliver security education and training to their constituents.

The conference schedule is normally just over five days in length. The conference usually begins with a welcome (or ice-breaker) reception on the Sunday evening, tutorials on the Monday, a conference dinner on Wednesday and the main conference sessions Tuesday through Friday. We have limited sponsorship opportunities available and it is first-come, first-served, so please act quickly!

Levels of Sponsorship Include:

Platinum Conference Sponsor (only 1 available, USD $25,000)
Gold Conference Sponsor (only 3 available, USD $12,500)
Silver Conference Sponsor (only 5 available, USD $7,000)

Individual Sponsorship Packages

Conference Terminal Room (only 1 available, Equipment & Services only)
Conference Lanyards (only 1 available, USD $2,500)
Conference Dinner (only 1 available, USD $5,000)
Conference Bags (only 1 available, USD $4,000)
Conference Welcome Reception (only 1 available, USD $2,500)
Conference Shirts (only 1 available, USD $3,500)
Conference Binders (only 1 available, USD $2,500)
Conference Lunch (only 5 available, USD $2,000)
Conference Tea/Coffee (only 5 available, USD $1,000)

Sponsorship is not limited to financial support per se, but can also take the form of provision of hardware/software etc. Should your company be interested in a sponsorship package not listed in this brochure then please feel free to contact us to discuss your interests.