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.
Holistic risk management: perspectives from IT professionals (13:42 +0100)
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FIRST Announces Call for Subjects for version 3 of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) (13:31 +0100)
Applications for participation in the Common Vulnerability Scoring System - Special Interest Group for the development of its next revision, Version 3, opened on March 19, 2012. Please see details at Common Vulnerability Scoring System v3 SIG call for Subjects.
FIRST Announces Call for Participants and Subjects for version 3 of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) (10:54 +0100)
The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) today publicly announced its Call for Participants for the core group of members on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System Special Interest Group. Please see details at The Call for Participants period for CVSS version 3 SIG begins March 16 and will end May 4