Call for Papers - Closed
This is call for submissions for the 2022 FIRST Symposium on Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), November 1-3, 2022. 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.
Proceedings will not be recorded. No press will be admitted. Speakers may stipulate that their sessions be treated as confidential and 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 Chair: Thomas Schreck
- Program Committee: James Chappell, Trey Darley, Alexandre Dulaunoy, Andreas Sfakianakis, Morton Swimmer
Call for Papers
FIRST is looking for 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 deep dives into specific threat actors.
- CTI 101 operationalization: intelligence requirements, threat modeling, collection management.
- Structuring CTI teams and career development for CTI analysts.
Call for Training
FIRST is looking for training submissions related to the above topics. There are multiple full or half-day training tracks to be filled.
CFP Timeline
all for Papers Opens: April 11Call for Papers Closes: May 18Updated: Acceptance Notifications: Weeks of July 11 and July 18- Draft Presentations Due for PC Review: Week of September 19
- Final Presentation Due for PC Approval: Week of October 17
Speaker Privileges
Accepted presentations will receive one complimentary registration pass. Accepted trainings will receive up to two complimentary registration passes.
Important Considerations
All talk and training proposals should be submitted via EasyChair using the link below. If you are new to EasyChair, a registration will be required.
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 May 9, 2022.
