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To improve CSIRT incident management practices within the FIRST community.
The goal of this SIG is to provide forum for Internet Infrastructure vendors.
To further co-operation within the FIRST community.
To advocate and develop collection and analysis of network sensor.
FIRST is the premier organization and recognized global leader in incident response. Membership in FIRST enables incident response teams to more effectively respond to security incidents reactive as well as proactive.
FIRST brings together a variety of computer security incident response teams from government, commercial, and educational organizations. FIRST aims to foster cooperation and coordination in incident prevention, to stimulate rapid reaction to incidents, and to promote information sharing among members and the community at large.
Apart from the trust network that FIRST forms in the global incident response community, FIRST also provides value added services. Some of these are:
Currently FIRST has more than 200 members, spread over Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
The Education Committee (EduC) Newsletter (15:27 +0100)
The Education Committee (EduC) has released their Winter/Spring 2012 Newsletter. You can access the newsletter at www.first.org/about/organization/committees#edc. Thank you to all of the writers and contributors!
Call for Speaker Deadline Approaching! (17:37 +0100)
If you’d like your talk to be considered for the 24th Annual FIRST Conference, “Security is Not an Island,” please turn in your submissions no later than Friday, December 16th. The official Call for Speakers Letter from 2012 Program Chair, Dr. Jose Nazario can be found at conference.first.org/cfs. The submission form is located towards the bottom of the letter.
The 2012 Call for Speakers is officially open (15:40 +0100)
The 2012 Call for Speakers for the 24th Annual FIRST Conference, "Security is Not an Island" is officially open. The FIRST 2012 Program Chair, Dr. Jose Nazario has posted more information at conference.first.org/cfs. Questions? Please contact the conference team at first-2012@first.org.