Sponsorship Opportunities

FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, seeks sponsorships for its 32nd Annual Conference to be held virtually on November 16-18, 2020.

Well-attended and well-received, the annual FIRST conference attracts over 1,000 participants from more than 80 countries around the globe. The annual conference is by far one of the most unique international assemblies of incident response and computer security professionals.

Sponsorship opportunities are limited and are on a first-come, first-served basis. Interested parties should act quickly to ensure sponsorship participation.

Be a part of the 2020 FIRST Sponsorship Team!

It’s both unique and essential that FIRST is a non-commercial organization, and by supporting FIRST through sponsorship we help the organization to remain non-partisan.

Access to Global Computer Security Experts

FIRST sponsorship provides a unique opportunity to show your organization’s commitment to best practice security. For those in computer security, networking and telecommunication industries, sponsorship opens the doors to a highly influential community of computer security incident response experts and decision-makers from around the globe.

• Reach an expected target audience of over 1,000 attendees
• Increase worldwide awareness of your organization’s brand, products, and services
• Gain access to computer security decision-makers from governments, corporations, and academia
• Be recognized as a key supporter of FIRST and FIRST’s goals of worldwide coordination and cooperation for the handling of computer security incidents
• Demonstrate your organization’s commitment to best practice security in a fast-growing community of security practitioners

Our incident response team sponsors the FIRST conference because we want internet users to understand the vital work that FIRST performs in fostering collaboration between Computer Incident Response Teams throughout the world.

Who attends?

Attendance will include representatives from over 480 FIRST member teams such as: Cisco, Microsoft, Deutsche Bank, Symantec, Apple, Citi, Siemens, eBay, BT, Hitachi, Google, Lockheed Martin, IBM, Target Corporation, NATO, Amazon, and Oxford University to name a few.

Attendees include:

• Incident response and security teams with responsibility for coordinating computer security incidents
• Policy and decision-makers who direct overall computer security
• Senior managers charged with protecting their corporate infrastructure
• Technical staff who determine security product needs and implement solutions
• Law enforcement personnel that investigate cybercrimes
• Legal counsel who work with policy and decision-makers in establishing security policies

• Government directors, managers, and senior executives responsible for protecting government systems and national critical infrastructure

  For a full sponsorship prospectus, please send an email to events@first.org.