2025 FIRST Regional Symposium Latin America & Caribbean
San Salvador, El Salvador - October 8-9, 2025
The FIRST symposium will be co-located with LACNIC / LACNOG 2025 at the Hilton de San Salvador in San Salvador, El Salvador. The symposium will be co-hosted by LACNIC and CERT.br/NIC.br.
FIRST symposia provide a discussion forum to share information about vulnerabilities, incidents, tools, and all other issues that affect the operation of incident response and security teams. Attendees are expected to be comprised of FIRST members, CSIRTs from the Latin American and Caribbean Region that are not members yet, plus network operators and security professionals from the LAC region.
This meeting is open to FIRST members and non-members of the incident response community.
Virtual viewing option and simultaneous translation will be available for plenary sessions only.
Agenda At-a-Glance
- October 8 | Plenary Sessions
- October 9 | Training Sessions
Call for Speakers - Deadline August 17, 2025
We are seeking for colleagues interested in presenting during the FIRST Symposium (FS). Presentations may be given in English or Spanish. Simultaneous interpretation will be available for the plenary session day.
Some suggested topics are as follows:
- Case studies and lessons learned in incident handling
- Use of threat feeds for incident response, workflow, and policies
- Practical security monitoring, threat detection, and analysis
- Tools, trends, and security technologies in the LAC region
- Cloud Security & Incident response
- Incident response in the AI era
- How AI improve incident response
- DNS, IPv6 and routing security and best practices
- Digital forensics applied to incident handling
- Malware analysis, anti-virus evasion, etc.
- Security and IoT
- Impact of data breaches, privacy and data protection regulation on incident handling
- Incident response tools, trends and security technologies
- Security awareness initiatives
- Effective security outreach and communication with decision makers, the public and stakeholders
- Public-Private collaboration and collaboration between CERTs/CSIRTs
Deadline: August 17, 2025
For your submission, please, the following information must be provided:
- Title
- Brief Summary (Abstract)
- Presenter's Name, Affiliation, and short Bio
- Estimated Time (30 - 40 mins) for presentation proposals
- Presentation format: online or in-person
- Language: SP, EN
Submit proposals to the e-mail address pc-first-lacnic44@lacnic.net.
Important Note:
FIRST does not allow presentations with the aim of gaining the audience's interest in any commercial application, solution or product. In other words,
NO MARKETING PRESENTATIONS.
Program Committee
- Cristine Hoepers, CERT.br, BR
- André Landim, CAIS/RNP, BR
- Daniel Maier de Carvalho, CSIRT Governo Presidencia Brasil
- Anchises Moraes, APURA, BR
- Graciela Martinez, CSIRT LACNIC, UY
There is no fee to attend the symposium. Attendees of the FIRST Symposium must also register for the LACNIC 44 / LACNOG 2025 in addition to registering for the symposium. Registration will open end of August.
More details on LACNC 44 can be found at: https://lacnic44.lacnic.net/
Venue and Accommodation
The FIRST symposium will be co-located with LACNIC 44 / LACNOG 2025 at the Hilton de San Salvador in San Salvador, El Salvador.
Please visit the LACNIC 44 event website for access to important travel and hotel information.
Hilton de San Salvador
89 Av Norte y 11 Calle Poniente Colonia Escalon,
San Salvador, 1101
El Salvador
