What's New 2024

White House recognizes FIRST's Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) as cybersecurity best practice; Record attendance at FIRSTCON Fukuoka marks Asia-Pacific expansion; Historic FIRST & AfricaCERT Symposium strengthens African cybersecurity collaboration

FIRST and the CVSS Special Interest Group (SIG) would like to wish a very happy first birthday to the newest version of CVSS, version 4.0!

Message from the Chair; Board members Roles and Responsibilities for 2024/2025; FIRST-AJCCBC Workshop Series – Summer 2024; First NETSEC training in Fukuoka; Looking back at the Fukuoka Annual Conference; Training on Fundamentals of Cyber Threat Intelligence successfully delivered at the International Information Technology University (IITU), Almaty, Kazakhstan; FIRST at the Summer School on Internet Governance in Meissen; Special Interest Group Updates; FIRST Newcomers & Membership Committee; IMPORTANT: Heads-Up on VAT for FIRST for all events in EUROPE from 2025 onward; FIRST Gains Momentum in Media Landscape; Upcoming Events; FIRST on Social Media

We’re expecting 9006 +/- 1259 vulnerabilities this quarter, as we close out the year.

Greetings FIRST Community,

2024 has been an exciting year of memorable programming, including the annual conference, which visited Japan in June! With just four months before the end of the year, we want to highlight the content and opportunities still to come.

Fukuoka, Japan - July 24, 2024 - The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) recently concluded its intensive five-day conference, FIRSTCON 2024, held this year in Fukuoka.

The 36th annual FIRST Conference, "FIRSTCON24," was held from June 9 to 14, 2024, in Fukuoka, Japan. This marked the first time in 15 years that the conference was hosted in Japan, with the last event taking place in Kyoto in 2009. The conference saw a remarkable turnout with 997 participants from 99 countries and regions.

In this report, CyCraft research team analyzes 27 listed companies in Taiwan, Level-A government agencies and healthcare institutions, covering 46 AD Domains, with 1,057,000 objects included.

FIRST published its eighth Annual Report which covers the organization’s accomplishments towards its vision of bringing together incident response and security teams from every country across the world to ensure a safe internet for all. The report is available at FIRST Annual Report 2023-2024.

As usual we like to verify our previous forecast before we make the next one. Due to travel, I must do this a few days before I should (normally on the 1^st of June).

Message from the Chair; Message from the Chair; FIRST Standards Committee; CTI Conference in Berlin; FIRST Newcomers & Membership Committee; On the Road to Fukuoka - See you soon!; FIRST as a Diana Initiative Community Partner; Growth Stack Media PR Updates; Special Interest Group Updates; FIRST Impressions Podcast; FIRST on Social Media

So what are we expecting in terms of numbers of CVEs this quarter?

Message from the Chair; Christmas CTF in Norway; Incentivizing anti-abuse proactivity among online service providers; FIRST Newcomers & Membership Committee; Growth Stack Media Appointed as FIRST's Agency of Record; On the Road to Fukuoka - Registration is Open!; FIRST Standards Committee update (aka “the wheel reinvention prevention committee”); Special Interest Group Updates; FIRST on Social Media; Upcoming Events

FIRST Elevates Public Relations Efforts with Appointment of Growth Stack Media as Agency of Record

Join us for the second edition of Balkan Cybersecurity Days! Organized by DCAF in collaboration with partners AKCESK and FIRST, the event will take place from March 20-22, 2024, in Durrës, Albania.

The Call for Speakers for this event is open through February 9th. Interested presenters can learn more at here.

Bringing together cybersecurity professionals from the public and private sectors, the agenda includes a high-level opening, a panel on promoting cybersecurity talent, and plenary sessions in response to FIRST’s call for papers. Days two and three feature technical training sessions.
#BCD2024

Every year we make a prediction to the number of vulnerabilities we expect to see published by NVD. We define this as the number published between New Year’s Day in 2023 to New Year’s Eve 2023, which is not the same as CVE’s that begin with 2023 as an identifier.

WHEN: Monday, March 25 through Wednesday, March 27, 2024.

LOCATION North Carolina State University, McKimmon Center 1101 Gorman Street Raleigh, NC, 27606

We are seeking individuals to submit abstracts for talks, panels, birds-of-a-feather sessions. Any interested persons can submit no later than January 31, 2024.