Call for Papers
This is the call for submissions for the 2025 FIRST Conference on Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), April 21-23, 2025. The event will be held at the Mercure MOA Hotel in Berlin, Germany. There will be one day of training followed by two days of plenary sessions. This event will be open to both FIRST members and non-members.
TLP:CLEAR proceedings will be live-streamed and recorded. No press will be admitted.
Speakers may stipulate that their sessions be treated as confidential and that all attendees are expected to respect this. Breaches of the FIRST Code of Conduct (including failing to respect the confidentiality of certain sessions) have consequences.
Questions about submission topics or sensitivity issues can be sent via email to the chair of the Program Committee: cti-sym-pc@first.org
- Program Co-Chairs: Patrick Grau and Dr. Thomas Schreck
- Program Committee: Full Listing Coming Soon
Call for Papers
FIRST is seeking speakers that would like to present on topics related to Cyber Threat Intelligence including:
- How can you tell if your organization's CTI program is working well?
- Finding the needle in the haystack: how do we prioritize effectively?
- Failing forward: share case studies that highlight failures and/or successes of using CTI.
- Operationalizing CTI: effective or innovative tooling/technology for protection, detection, response, and CTI support.
- Overcoming CTI integration challenges in your SOC.
- CTI creation, enrichment, and refinement tips and tricks.
- CTI in context with digital forensics.
- Intelligence tradecraft wasn't invented yesterday: applying classic intelligence approaches to CTI.
- CTI 101 operationalization: intelligence requirements, threat modeling, collection management.
- Structuring CTI teams and career development for CTI analysts.
The conference aims to share knowledge about best practices in CTI and toolings, etc. We do not accept submissions describing attacks or attacker groups. Please do not submit such topics.
Call for Workshops
FIRST is looking for workshop submissions related to the above topics. There are multiple full or half-day tracks to be filled.
CFP Timeline
- Call for Papers Closes: November 8, 2024
- Acceptance Notifications: Week of December 2, 2024
Speaker Privileges
Authors of accepted presentations will receive a complimentary registration pass.
Workshop presenters and assistants of accepted workshops will receive one complimentary registration each.
Complimentary registrations are non-transferable.
Important Considerations
All proposals should be submitted via EasyChair. If you are new to EasyChair, a registration will be required before accessing the submission form.
Please provide key takeaways as bullet points in your submission.
Full papers will be given preferential treatment over abstract-only submissions, but all submissions will be given full consideration.
Submissions which the Programming Committee determines to be product pitches will be rejected.
Again, all submissions must be received by 23:59 UTC November 8, 2024.
