What's New 2012

The Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA) has been selected to host one of the largest information security conferences for 2012. This year, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) has chosen Malta for its 24th Annual Conference, which will be held between the 17th and 22nd of June 2012.

An Economist Intelligence Unit research program commissioned by IBM.

Applications for participation in the Common Vulnerability Scoring System - Special Interest Group for the development of its next revision, Version 3, opened on March 19, 2012. Please see details at Common Vulnerability Scoring System v3 SIG call for Subjects.

The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) today publicly announced its Call for Participants for the core group of members on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System Special Interest Group. Please see details at The Call for Participants period for CVSS version 3 SIG begins March 16 and will end May 4

The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) is holding its 24th Annual Conference this June (17th – 22nd) on one of the most fortified islands in the Mediterranean, Malta. Reflecting FIRST’s mission for global cooperation, the five-day conference will bring together leading experts and security professionals from around the world to share best practice and the latest thinking on this year’s theme; Security is not an island.

The Winter 2012 Edition of the FIRST Times Newsletter has been posted at https://www.first.org/resources/newsletters. Editor Reneaué Railton would like to thank all that contributed!

The Education Committee (EduC) has released their Winter/Spring 2012 Newsletter. You can access the newsletter at http://www.first.org/about/organization/committees#edc. Thank you to all of the writers and contributors!

In an interview with George V. Hulme, David Mortman of Securosis recommends joining FIRST, flagging the immediate benefit of the connections a new member makes. “Should something happen, you know who to call”, he says.

Welcome to our new teams Orange-CERT Coordination Center sponsored by CERT-IST and CERTA and Maybank IT Security and Incident Management team (MBBCERT) sponsored by MyCERT and E-Cop. Thank you to the sponsors for your time and effort on behalf of FIRST.