Security Lounge SIG

Since 2012, the Security Lounge SIG designs, develops, and conducts security challenge and competition exercises for the FIRST.org community.

Our flagship event is held during the FIRST annual conference. This SIG will maintain an archive of exercises for related events.

Mission

The SIG SecLounge aims at improving participants skills and strengthening their response and technical analysis capabilities.

By offering gamification around tools & techniques used by the FIRST community, the SIG aims at increasing diversity both in terms of profiles, genders and outreach.

The SIG contributes to the visibility of the FIRST community and the recognition of its contributions to the incident response community.

Goals/Deliverables:

Each year the Security Lounge SIG has a set of recurring goals:

  1. Plan, prepare, and organize an on-site security challenge event at the annual FIRST meeting for attendees.
  2. Communicate quarterly to FIRST membership of recent activities, SIG status, and upcoming events.
  3. Build awareness and support for the SIG activities within and outside of the FIRST community.

For the period from June 2026 to May 2027

  1. Prepare and run the annual conference CTF.
  2. Organise and run up to 4 replays. Priority will be given to SIG SecLounge supporting organisation and events directly related to FIRST.org.
  3. Update the content on the permanent instance of the CTF on FIRST.org website.
  4. Explore options for more on-site only challenges to defeat AI.

Chair(s)

  1. David Durvaux
  2. Renato Otranto, Jr.

Membership

The core SIG (seclounge-sig@first.org) team does not have an open membership model. Much of the development activity of the SIG is not applicable to the general public, since it would potentially disclose restricted information to competition events.

SIG team members are made up of select experts who have a wide array of experience in areas such as systems administration, network engineering, information security forensics, data analysis, and software development.

SIG team members are expected to contribute to the development of challenges, to provide support for challenge events, and regularly participate in SIG meetings.

SIG chairs will periodically solicit or accept new members as required based on the expected workload for the coming year. Anyone interested in joining the SIG team should contact the chairs and inquire about availability and opportunities to participate in the SIG team.

SIG member adheres to the SIG SecLounge framework

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