Suguru Yamaguchi Fellowship Program

  • 2025 2025

    First Fellowship 2023

    Fellows at the 2025 FIRST Annual Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

  • 2024 2024

    First Fellowship 2023

    Fellows at the 2024 FIRST Annual Conference in Fukuoka, Japan.

  • 2023 2023

    First Fellowship 2023

    Fellows at the 2023 FIRST Annual Conference in Montreal, Canada.

  • 2022 2022

    First Fellowship 2022

    Fellows at the 2022 FIRST Annual Conference in Dublin, Ireland.

  • 2019 2019

    First Fellowship 2019

    Fellows at the 2019 FIRST Annual Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.

  • 2018 2018

    First Fellowship 2018

    Fellows at the 2018 FIRST Annual Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • 2017 2017

    First Fellowship 2017

    Fellows at the 2017 FIRST Annual Conference in San Juan, Porto Rico.

  • 2016 2016

    First Fellowship 2016

    Fellows at the 2017 FIRST Annual Conference in Seoul, South Korea.

  • 2015 2015

    First Fellowship 2015

    Fellows at the 2017 FIRST Annual Conference in Berlin, Germany.

Effective digital resilience and incident response depends on a strong network of capable partners and practitioners across local, regional, and global communities. Recognizing this need, FIRST launched the Suguru Yamaguchi (SY) Fellowship Program giving national-level CSIRT teams from underrepresented regions a greater ability to join and engage with the global FIRST community.

The program is named to honor the late Dr. Suguru Yamaguchi, a founding member of JPCERT/CC, former FIRST Board member, and initiator of the Fellowship Program. The Fellowship Program reflects his dedication to supporting Internet development and outreach, partnership, and education across the incident response community.

The SY Fellowship Program

The SY Fellowship Program is for CSIRTs with national coordination responsibility, including national teams and teams with national-level sector responsibility.

It offers these teams a four-year opportunity to be further embedded into the wider cybersecurity community through FIRST.

Participating teams will have the chance to:

Attending the FIRST Conference is at the core of the SY Fellowship Program. As such the SY Fellowship support includes:

How to Apply:

Each year FIRST selects up to two teams to join the SY Fellowship for the four-year duration of the program.

To be considered for the Fellowship, teams must formally apply and will be selected based on their organizational maturity and ability to grow into a successful incident response team that is able to participate in FIRST programs and engage with the community.

Eligibility:

Applicant teams must have national coordination responsibility including national teams and teams with national-level sector responsibility, including all-of-government, private networks, educational networks, or a combination of these areas.

Applicant teams cannot be a current member of FIRST at the time of application and cannot have participated in the SY Fellowship in the past.

How to Apply:

Teams can apply for the program using the FIRST Fellowship Application Form

Please note: You will first be asked to register with the FIRST Portal prior to completing the application form. If you need assistance with the FIRST Portal, contact FIRST Support.

Deadlines:

FIRST will accept applications to the SY Fellowship Program year-round. The earlier you submit, the more opportunity you will have for feedback and to make updates if requested.

If you have questions about the SY Fellowship Program, please contact fellowship@first.org.

Current SY Fellowship Teams

SY Fellowship Alumni