April 2020 Update At their April 2020 meeting, the Board voted to suspend the requirement for a physical site visit for applying members until further notice. Sponsoring teams may conduct a virtual site visit. Please note additional guidelines for virtual site visit here. This decision was made in consideration of Read more…
by Art Manion, Serge Droz and Jeroen van der Ham Monday, May 18th, 2020 Coordinated Vulnerability disclosure is hard. This is particularly true if multiple parties are involved. FIRST is helping with ethical and practical guidelines. The story of FIRST begins more than thirty years ago, when Robert Morris found Read more…
Now inviting participants for next review round May 13th, 2020 – In 2015, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) began an effort to standardize the Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) for the security industry. Targeted at CSIRTs, PSIRTs, operational trust communities, information sharing analysis organizations, government agencies, and Read more…
May 5th, 2020 – As part of their mission to encourage global coordination and a global language, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) has released an updated set of coordination principles – Guidelines for Multi-Party Vulnerability Coordination and Disclosure version 1.1. The purpose of the Guidelines is Read more…
March 12th, 2020 – The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) has released an updated version of its Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) Services Framework. The new framework was developed by recognized experts from the FIRST community with strong support from the Task Force CSIRT (TF-CSIRT) Community, Read more…