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FIRST CORE
FIRST CORE is our new sponsorship initiative to bolster our community & capacity building efforts and improve global incident response, together.
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CCB Initiatives
Our CCB Initiatives are distinct work programs designed to help grow, strengthen, and expand global incident response.
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Fellowship Program
The Suguru Yamaguchi (SY) Fellowship Program assists teams with national responsibility engage with and join the global FIRST community.
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FIRST training
FIRST training is developed and delivered by members of the FIRST community, made up of operational incident response practitioners from around the world.
Community and Capacity Building (CCB)
Working together to improve global incident response
Since the establishment of FIRST, the community has engaged in a wide range of both formal and informal capacity building activities. This has included organized initiatives such as FIRST education and training; the Suguru Yamaguchi Fellowship Program; the sharing and development of standards and good practices; and indirectly through the provision of platforms, forums, networking, and events.
FIRST’s Community and Capacity Building Program was launched in 2022 and is designed to help leverage the expertise and value created
with and by the global incident response community for more meaningful impact on-the-ground.
FIRST works with incident responders and teams around the world across a menu of activities including:
- Information and good practice sharing and development
- Formal and informal mentorship activities
- Community development and engagement
- Fostering a conducive policy ecosystem
- Fellowships
- Operational training
- Responsive programming and initiatives
- Support advice and contributions to global cyber capacity building
If you want to help FIRST have a bigger impact, consider joining our FIRST CORE and initiative sponsors! More information available at the FIRST CORE page.
Fortinet has collaborated with FIRST for more than a decade and is deeply committed to driving public-private partnership efforts that address cybersecurity risk to society. FIRST CORE represents a unique opportunity to provide boots-on-the-ground support to security teams around the world, particularly in under resourced regions, and we’re proud to be the founding partner of this important initiative. Creating new avenues for defenders everywhere to share knowledge and best practices ultimately give us more opportunities to collectively disrupt global cybercrime.
Fortinet, Founding CORE Supporter
Fortinet, Founding CORE Supporter
Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), is a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cyber security solutions to CSP's around the world. Fortinet’s security solutions and ecosystem delivers security that is tailored for and integrates with the current and evolving infrastructure and technologies of today’s Mobile Network Operators and Managed Service Providers.
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Cybersecurity is a shared challenge that requires collective responsibility. Cyber community building around the globe is crucial to foster trust, inclusion, and collaboration, creating a resilient ecosystem to respond to threats effectively and equitably. It accelerates learning, amplifies diverse voices, and sustains progress and that is why FIRST has these ideas baked into our mission. In a globalised digital risk landscape, our strength lies in unity and we look forward to working with CORE sponsors to have an even greater impact.
Chris Gibson, Executive Director, FIRST
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