Spanish companies show support for the 2007 FIRST Conference in Seville (20:00 +0100)

RedIris, La Caixa and Panda Software are now sponsoring our conference. Our thanks to all of our current sponsors for their valuable support. There are still sponsorship opportunities available, please visit the Conference Sponsorship web page.

19th FIRST Annual Conference program schedule released (17:00 +0100)

Details on the conference program are available now. Preview the schedule on-line or download the printable pdf version, and register now for this unique event in Seville, Spain!

Register now for April TC in Doha, Qatar (21:00 +0100)

Hosted by Q-CERT from 12-16 April 2007, this TC marks the inaugural FIRST event in the Middle East region. More information about the program and location are available at FIRST website. FIRST Members may register online to attend to the event

One more team from the Middle East region within FIRST (19:54 +0100)

Q-CERT - the national CERT Coordination Center of State of Qatar - has recently affiliated to FIRST as a full member. FIRST thanks the sponsors (GOVCERT.NL and SingCERT) for their efforts, and look forward to active participation of the new member!

New sponsor for the 2007 FIRST Conference in Seville! (01:54 +0100)

Juniper Networks joins the FIRST Sponsorship Team this year. Our thanks to all of our current sponsors for their valuable support. There are still sponsorship opportunities available, please visit the Conference Sponsorship web page.

March 2007 FIRST TC final program was released (19:55 +0100)

This Colloquium will be a joint event between FIRST and GFIRST during 1-2 March 2007. FIRST Members may register online via the FIRST website to attend to the event. Register now!

Two new gold sponsors for the 2007 FIRST Conference in Seville! (18:00 +0100)

CCN-CERT and IBM ISS are now sponsoring our conference. Our thanks to all of our current sponsors for their valuable support. There are still sponsorship opportunities available, please visit the Conference Sponsorship web page.

Three new sponsors for the 2007 FIRST Conference in Seville! (18:25 +0100)

Hitachi, Assuria and Sun Microsystems are now sponsoring our conference. Our thanks to all of our current sponsors for their valuable support. There are still sponsorship opportunities available, please visit the Conference Sponsorship web page.

TERIS is the newest member in FIRST (09:00 +0100)

The Telefonica del Peru CSIRT has recently joined FIRST as a full member. This new addition is the seventh Latin American team within FIRST. FIRST thanks the sponsors for their efforts, and look forward to active participation of the new member!

Four new sponsors for the 2007 FIRST Conference in Seville! (19:26 +0100)

Google, KrCERT/CC, Cisco and Cymru are now sponsoring our conference. Our thanks to all of our current sponsors for their valuable support. There are still sponsorship opportunities available, please visit the Conference Sponsorship web page.

Register now for January TC in Budapest, Hungary (17:40 +0100)

This Colloquium will be a joint event between FIRST and the TF-CSIRT from 29-31 January 2007, in Budapest (HU). FIRST Members may register online via the FIRST website to attend to the event.

CVSS Scores and Calculators (14:25 +0100)

Several sites provide easy ways to get CVSS scores. The major ones are listed on the SIG website.

Happy Computer Security Day (21:00 +0100)

This week several organizations around the world have celebrated the Computer Security Day (CSD) to raise the awareness of computer security issues. See how you can remind people to protect their computers and information

Best Practices: Acceptable Use Policy Template released (16:00 +0100)

The purpose of this policy is to establish acceptable and unacceptable use of electronic devices and network resources in conjunction with its established culture of ethical and lawful behavior, openness, trust, and integrity.

Best Practice on how to set up a CSIRT (16:02 +0100)

ENISA CSIRT Setting up Guide describes the process of setting up a Computer Security and Incident Response Team (CSIRT) from all relevant perspectives like business management, process management and technical perspective.

Guidelines for Internet Infrastructure Vendors-Coordination Centers Relationship released (15:00 +0100)

The Internet Infrastructure Vendors SIG released this best practice, as the industry sees it, in the area of product vulnerability coordination. More specifically it covers multi-vendor coordination on the world wide scale.

FIRST Special Interest Groups Framework released (20:30 +0100)

The four newest SIGs (Abuse Handling, Artifact Analysis, Law Enforcement/CSIRT Cooperation and Network Monitoring) and the FIRST SIG framework establish new channels for discussion on security.

October Technical Colloquium program available (15:40 +0100)

Plenary Sessions, Security Workshop and FIRST/TRANSITS Course program are available on FIRST website. The TC will be held in October 7-12th in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Call for Papers for the 19th Annual FIRST Conference (15:32 +0100)

The conference program committee solicits original contributions based on the theme of Digital Privacy. Submissions should be sent before November 15th.

Sponsorship opportunities for the 19th Annual FIRST Conference (15:31 +0100)

Sponsorship at FIRST Conferences opens to the doors to gain focused access to a highly influential group of IT Security practitioners and Computer Security Incident Response Experts from around the globe.