What's New 2015

28th Annual FIRST Conference: Getting to the Soul of Incident Response - June 12-17, 2016 | Seoul, Korea - Call for Papers Extended to 31 December!

The final report of the 2015 Best Practices Forum on CSIRT, organized within the Internet Governance Forum, has been published

FIRST has formed the Red Teaming SIG. Interested participants who are part of an existing Red Team or in the process of forming one should send a request to be added to the mail list to first-sec@first.org

The FIRST Fellowship Program is accepting applications until 15 January. More information can be found at: https://www.first.org/global/fellowship

Com a proliferação de objetos conectados à nuvem, de lâmpadas a automóveis, esperada para os próximos anos, especialistas de cibersegurança alertam para o aumento significativo de riscos à privacidade e segurança dos consumidores

FIRST welcomes new Board of Directors member after the Annual General Meeting in Berlin.

The 2015 Fellowship Program participants at the Annual FIRST Conference in Berlin, Germany, meeting with Fellowship program coordinator Adli Wahid, outgoing Chairman Maarten Van Horenbeeck and incoming Chair Margrete Raaum, as well as Directors Mike Murray and Gaus Rajnovic.

800 IT security experts gather at international FIRST Conference in the German capital

Third version aims to make the system more applicable to modern concerns

The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) signed an agreement to cooperate in the promotion of a cyber security culture and measures to improve responses to cyber incidents.

FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, has paired up with 4SICS, the premium summit in Northern Europe for security in SCADA, SMARTGRID, and INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS. The second annual international summit takes place in October 2015 (20-22) in Stockholm, Sweden, with a series of high-level presentations and tutorials delivered by international experts in the field of cyber security in SCADA and Industrial Control Systems.

The event was hosted by AfricaCERT and team rep Jean-Robert Hountomey and was also supported by GEANT Association (TRANSITS II Training) and Don Stikvoort.

FIRST is calling for community input on an updated CSIRT services list. Please review and provide comment at http://bit.ly/1Kw52dy!

Cornelia Rogall-Grothe, State Secretary and Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology at Germany's Federal Ministry of the Interior, will open the conference which this year focuses on the theme of Unified Security: Improving the Future.

The Vulnerability Coordination SIG has been established to improve the way in which the increasingly multi-faceted and multi-stakeholder challenge of vulnerability information coordination is met, and to develop a common and consistent methodology for how coordination becomes more effective.

FIRST would like to welcome two new sponsors of the annual conference – NC4 and AIRBUS Defense & Space. Both organizations are joining the sponsorship team at the Gold level.

We are happy to announce that the InterContinental Berlin has kindly extended the Early Bird hotel rate offer from April 1st to April 10th to coincide with our registration Early Bird offer. Please visit the Hotel Information page for more information and to book your lodging.

CircleID — This article in CircleID covered how the Internet Society and the Internet Architecture Board developed and hosted a one-day “Coordinating Attack Response at Internet Scale (CARIS) Workshop” at the FIRST Conference in Berlin, June 19th of 2015.

Applications are now being accepted through March 31, 2015 and details are available at http://www.first.org/global/fellowship or by contacting fellowship@first.org.