Serving on the board of directors is an exciting opportunity to develop your personal and professional life. But it is also challenging work and requires diverse skills and a consistent commitment in terms of time and effort. We are seeking volunteers that are passionate about FIRST with commitment and integrity, Read more…
March 25th, 2022: The Board of Directors strongly believes that FIRST should be an inclusive organization with broad global participation and collaboration to make the internet safe for everyone. FIRST is a non-profit organization incorporated in the United States of America. We are obliged to take note and act upon Read more…
by Serge Droz on behalf of the FIRST boardThursday, February 24th, 2022 As the ongoing conflict in the Ukraine keeps escalating, we continue receiving reports about an increase of cyberattacks. FIRST has members from nearly 100 countries, among them teams from the conflict region. Together with all FIRST members these Read more…
New York – February 23rd, 2022 – The world’s leading implementation-focused nonprofit cybersecurity organizations today launched Nonprofit Cyber, a first-of-its-kind coalition of global nonprofit organizations to enhance joint action to improve cybersecurity. All coalition members are nonprofits that serve the public interest by developing, sharing, deploying, and increasing the awareness Read more…
Organizations looking to minimize exposure to exploitable software should scan Twitter for mentions of security bugs as well as use the Common Vulnerability Scoring System or CVSS, Kenna Security argues. Better still is prioritizing the repair of vulnerabilities for which exploit code is available, if that information is known. CVSS Read more…
By Aaron KaplanWednesday, January 5th, 2022 Motivation Every incident response team globally is facing a serious increase of workload. As attackers scan and penetrate networks via automation, so must defenders look at automation. However, there is no single silver bullet for “automating-away” all of the incident response on the defenders Read more…
By Mona Østvang, FIRST Board DirectorTuesday, November 29th, 2021 Last month, I was honored to be one of the planners and participants of the FIRST Technical Colloquium (TC) in Norway. Organized by FIRST members, the event was held just outside of Oslo at the Telenor Expo, Telenor headquarters in Fornebu. Read more…
By Vicente Diaz, Security Specialist, VirusTotalMonday, August 2nd, 2021 During a recent podcast I was asked “is threat hunting useful anymore?” which is a legitimate question, followed by “should we care about APT activity at all?”. This made me think that it would be interesting to provide some insights into Read more…