FIRST SC Update

FIRST TC Plennary sessions

Wednesday — October 17th, 2007 14:30

FIRST SC members will provide a "FIRST Status Update" to let the attendees know what things FIRST is currently working on as well as what's been done in the last few months.  They will also describe various initiatives that are taking place within FIRST and what things are coming up in the near future.

Presenters

• Francisco Monserrat (FIRST.org, ES)

  

  Francisco "Paco" Monserrat is the Security Coordinator of RedIRIS (the Spanish Academic and Research Network) and he is a FIRST member since 1997. During the last few years, he has worked actively on the TF-CSIRT, iniromoting the cooperation among CSIRTs in Europe.

  Paco has spoken on various conferences and his activities focus on Forense Analysis, criptography and Computer Security Incidents Response Teams.

  
  

• Kenneth van Wyk (FIRST.Org, US)

  

  Kenneth R. van Wyk is an internationally recognized information security expert and author of the O´Reilly and Associates books, Incident Response and Secure Coding. In addition to providing consulting and training services through his company, KRvW Associates, LLC, (http://www.KRvW.com), he currently holds numerous positions: as a monthly columnist for on-line security portal, eSecurityPlanet (http://www.eSecurityPlanet.com), and a Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (http://www.sei.cmu.edu).

  Ken has 20+ years experience as an IT Security practitioner in the academic, military, and commercial sectors. He has held senior and executive technologist positions at Tekmark, Para-Protect, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), in addition to the U.S. Department of Defense and Carnegie Mellon and Lehigh Universities.

  Ken also served a two-year elected position as a member of the Steering Committee, and a one-year elected position as the Chairman of the Steering Committee, for the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) organization. At the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, Ken was one of the founders of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT®). He holds an engineering degree from Lehigh University and is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, and has presented papers and speeches for CSI, ISF, USENIX, FIRST, AusCERT, and others. Ken is also a CERT® Certified Computer Security Incident Handler.

• Liliana Solha (FIRST.Org, BR)

  

  Liliana Solha holds a Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering at University of Lima (Ulima), Peru, and a Post Graduation title in Computer Networks at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. She has been involved in security area since 1996. In 1998 was nominated as CAIS/RNP Manager, the Brazilian Academic and Research Network CSIRT. She leaded the FIRST affiliation process of CAIS/RNP in 2001, sponsoring later the affiliation of other three Latin American CSIRTs.

  In the last few years she impelled the development of CSIRTs in Latin America, promoting the establishment of a regional initiative. She acts as a FIRST Steering Committe Member since 2002 - the first Latin American representative on this board. She actively participated on the establishment of "CLARA - Cooperation of Latin America Research and Academic - Security Task Force (GT-Seg)" in May 2005, acting as the Co-Chair since then. This initiative basically promotes the security awareness and development of CSIRTs in National Research and Education Networks of Latin America and Caribbean.

  Liliana has participated as a speaker and trainer at several Brazilian and international security events.