FIRST Global Initiatives 2018

Members who would like to nominate a qualified individual or team should complete the form by April 2019 here: https://first.org/hof/

The 2019 event calendar has been updated. We have several events with open registration so please update your calendars and register today!

Would you like to find a way to give back to FIRST and the incident response community? Sign-up on our first-trainers list to be notified of opportunities to travel the world and share your expertise. FIRST will provide the materials and travel if you provide your time and knowledge. Contact first-sec@first.org for more details.

Volunteers at FIRST initiative enables contributors to share their past experience with FIRST community and also receive a certificate of participation in the program.

Recently we've seen several examples of likely state-sponsored security incidents of which the appropriateness was later strongly debated. Incidents such as states impacting commercial enterprises during cyber attacks; purported sabotage of critical infrastructure, and attacks on civilian activists have all, to a greater or lesser degree, led to concerns being raised by both civilian watchdog groups, academics, technologists and governments.

Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) issues a grant to FIRST to develop training and an event focused on incident response capacity building in the Pacific