FIRST Technical Colloquium Cuenca, Ecuador

November 27^th–28^th, 2019

Hosted by CSIRT-CEDIA co-located with TIC.ec

FIRST EC TC 2019 will be held as a parallel event in relation with TIC.ec and it will be executed in the same days as TIC.ec. You could alternate in conferences from both programs, if you are registered in both events. FIRST EC TC 2019 will be made up of plenary: sessions (60 minutes), presentations (45 minutes) and workshops (120 or 240 minutes).

The registration is free and open to all, no need to be a FIRST member neither register at TIC.ec, but registration to FIRST EC TC 2019 is mandatory.
On both days, there will be complimentary morning and afternoon coffee breaks as well as daily lunch.

Registration

We would like to announce a "Save the Date" and "Call for Presentations" for the annual FIRST Ecuador Technical Colloquium (FIRST EC TC 2019). The main event, hosted by CSIRT-CEDIA in Cuenca, Ecuador will be a plenary style conference held on the 27th and 28th of November 2019.

The event website: https://csirt.cedia.org.ec/2019/09/first-ecuador-tc-2019/

Event registration is now open. This will be free event with no registration charges (although registration is required). This event will be open to all (not just FIRST members) and fills up quickly and as we will have limited seating, please register early to avoid being turned away.

Register now!

Call for Speakers

We are looking for speakers that would like to present at the TC. We are most interested in new presentations and presenters, however important updates on prior work are also welcome. We strongly encourage any individual who has not spoken at a conference before to submit a proposal. The idea behind the TC is to encourage security teams and researchers talent to share their technical work in a friendly environment. While we give special consideration to local talent, submissions are welcome from anyone, anywhere.

Any novel ideas, techniques, case studies, or research related to incident and threat response are welcome. Some suggested topics are as follows:

• Threat actor groups & techniques
• Creative incident response techniques
• Indicators of compromise and how detect/mitigate
• Data analytics for security
• Criminal underground and Legislation
• Collaboration with LEAs (Law Enforcement Agencies)
• Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures
• Digital forensics
• Human-computer interaction, security, and privacy
• Intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention
• Malicious code analysis, anti-virus evasion, etc.
• Security architecture
• Open Source tools
• Attack and response to an organization

For your submission to be considered, you must provide ALL of the following information:

• Title
• Presenter's Name(s), Affiliation, and short biography
• Brief Summary (Abstract) and completion status/plan
• Estimated Time (45 mins + 10 for questions is typical)

To: first-tc@cedia.org.ec

Important Note:
FIRST does not allow presentations with the aim of gaining the audience's interest in any commercial application, solution or product. In other words, NO MARKETING PRESENTATIONS. Please only submit a talk if you are actually able to attend the TC at your travel expense.

Our goal is to have the program on the event website by the end of november 17^th, to that end please have all submission completed by november 3^rd. Feel free to reply with any questions.

Venue

Administration Multi-use Room at the Administration Faculty, University of Azuay.