FIRST Annual Conference 2009

Program Chair Andrew Cushman has announced the Call for Speakers for the 2010 FIRST Conference in Miami is now open. For more details and important dates please see http://conference.first.org/

FIRST would like to thank VeriSign for supporting the 2010 Conference! VeriSign joins the sponsorship team at the Gold level. There are still sponsorship opportunities available, please visit the conference website for more information.

FIRST Members might now access what was shown at Kyoto conference, under the theme "Aftermath: Crafts and Lessons of Incident Recovery".

Congratulations to Thomas Grenman, CERT-FI and Michael Scheck, Cisco CSIRT. For winning submissions please see http://www.first.org/global/practices/

Featuring Gib Sorebo - Chief Security Engineer and Assistant VP for Technology for SAIC. Gib assists government and private sector organizations in complying with legal and regulatory requirements related to information security and privacy. He will present "The Next Generation of Incident Response" on the program in Kyoto http://conference.first.org/program/program.aspx.

Steve Mancini with Intel has won the theme contest for the 2010 conference: Past the Faded Perimeter - Threat and Incident Response. Congratulations to Steve! The prize is a complimentary registration for the 2010 conference.

The world’s economic woes haven’t stopped unprecedented levels of sponsorship being pledged for the 21st Annual Conference of FIRST with six months still to go before proceedings open on June 28, 2009, in Kyoto.