September 2008 FIRST Technical Colloquium

Hillsboro, Oregon (USA), 15-16 September, 2008

On behalf of the Steering Committee of Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), I am really sorry to inform you that the September Technical Colloquia, scheduled on September 15-16 is officially canceled.

Due to various reasons, the SC was considering the option on canceling the event.

Even though we are really willing to hold a wonderful event for our members benefit, the circumstance does not allow us to proceed.

Please accept our apologies on any confusion and difficulties caused by the cancelation.

We are happy to assist you on any cancelation process and please feel free to contact me(arnold.yoon@first.org) for further details.

Again, we are really sorry to inform you the event is canceled and hope to see you on our next upcoming event.

Thank you.

Regards,
Arnold

FIRST Technical Colloquia (TCs) provide a discussion forum for FIRST member teams to share information about vulnerabilities, incidents, tools and all other issues that affect the operation of incident response and security teams.

For you that are new in FIRST or never have attended a TC, the colloquium typically provides one whole day of plenary sessions for informal discussions and presentations on topics of FIRST membership interest, or that are more sensitive in nature and related to the day-to-day work of participants, followed by a day of hands-on classes, where leading security experts sit down with small groups of FIRST team members, and work through technical topics in a highly interactive hands-on fashion.

The FIRST colloquia and hands-on classes are typically hosted by members and since 2005 are being organized in a regional basis the current regions being Latin-America, North-America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. For each region the goal is to organize one TC per year either standing on its own, or jointly with regional CSIRT initiatives.

Location

The event will be held at the Jones Farm Conference Center Intel Corporation, Oregon, located at:

• TC September 2008