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November 13, 2020 – The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams ( FIRST ) is holding its annual conference online next week. The three-day event, which is taking place online for the first time, will feature both industry experts and academics from the global community talking about the latest Read more…

Developed by the FIRST Ethics special interest group, the ethicsfIRST framework covers a list of principles, with an explanation on how to apply each one, that detail the responsibility of cybersecurity professionals during an incident to ensure that the interest of the public is always the primary consideration. Each principle Read more…

September 24, 2020 – The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) has jointly honored Ian Charles Cook and Don Stikvoort in the second edition of The Incident Response Hall of Fame. The Incident Hall of Fame rewards visionaries and leaders in the field of cyber security with inductees Read more…

The results of the 2020 FIRST Board of Directors election follow: Alexander Jaeger (Google IRT) Serge Droz (Liaison,Proton-CERT) Dave Schwartzburg (Cisco Systems) Javier Berciano (Liaison,One eSecurity) Shawn Richardson (NVIDIA) The full board list can be found here. Thank you to all of the candidates who ran in the election. Thu, Read more…

The content reviews the organization’s many activities including events, special interest groups, training and education, policy and governance and global outreach through its fellowship program. In addition, the report includes a financial update and an overview of the infrastructure investment the organization has made in the last year. Serge Droz, Read more…

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…