FIRST Victim Notification Initiative
Victim Notification
Cyber attacks today often lead quickly to enormous damage. It's thus instrumental that victims can be informed quickly and the security community develop tools to achieve this. For this reason FIRST, together with IST and Shadowserver has started the Victim Notification initiative.
Mission:
To enhance existing and identify novel technical and human means for victim notification, the Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), the Institute for Security and Technology (IST), and The Shadowserver Foundation (SF) will convene, from across the cybersecurity community, an initiative to identify how cybersecurity researchers and companies with actionable, time-sensitive information about cybersecurity intrusions can share this information with the victims of cyber attacks - to prevent, disrupt, or mitigate adverse effects.
FIRST will host this initiative.
Additional activities include coordinate development of best practices; use FIRST’s international events and mailing lists to promote the project; and leverage FIRST’s global reach to gather contributions from the technical community across the globe. FIRST hosts the existing notification system and will draw from this experience in contributing to the discussion effort.
A second phase of this program would seek to stand that system up and facilitate its long term success.
If you would like to request to join the initiative please do so here:
Request to Join
For more information on the FIRST Victim Notification service, please contact Victim Notification.
