FIRST Members 2008

Please join us in welcoming the newest FIRST members: Effective September 1st is full team member IPA-CERT, Japan and effective October 1st are full team member Barclays Information Security and Privacy Incident Response and Investigations Team (ISPIRIT), UK and Liaison Member Kees Leune, USA. FIRST thanks the sponsors for their efforts and look forward to the active participation of the new members!

Two new national CSIRTs - CERT.at from Austria and SLCERT from Sri Lanka - have joined FIRST as full members. FIRST thanks the sponsors for their efforts and look forward to the active participation of the new members!

26 June – Steve Adegbite from Microsoft (USA) was the newest member elected to the FIRST SC for the 2008-2010 term. Also re-elected were Peter Allor from IBM (USA), Scott McIntyre from KPN-CERT (NL), Chris Gibson from Citigroup (USA/UK) and Derrick Scholl from Sun Microsystems (USA). Derrick Scholl and Chris Gibson will continue their roles as President/Chair and CFO/Treasurer, respectively. A fond farewell and thank you to Liliana 'Nina' Solha – who decided not to run for re-election after serving 6 years on the FIRST SC and heading up the website efforts and various TCs and programs throughout Latin America.

Pepijn Vissers (Netherlands) has recently affiliated to FIRST as a liaison member. FIRST thanks the sponsor GOVCERT.NL for its support and looks forward to the active participation of the new member!

CSIRT Banco Real - Real Bank Brazil Security Incident Response Team - has recently affiliated to FIRST as a full member. FIRST thanks the sponsors CERT.br and AAB GCIRT for their efforts, and looks forward to the active participation of the new member!

EMCs Product Security Response Center (EMC) from USA and Kakaku.com Security Incident Response Team (KKCSIRT) from Japan have joined FIRST as full members. FIRST thanks the sponsors for their efforts and look forward to the active participation of the new members!

Eric Pancer (USA) has recently affiliated to FIRST as a liaison member. FIRST thanks the sponsor NU-CERT for its support and looks forward to the active participation of the new member!

Now the latest program agenda of Joint Workshop on Security, and FIRST Technical Colloquium 2008 in Tokyo has been updated and published. We are looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible in one of the best season of the year in Tokyo, Japan!

A total of 123 registrants from 28 different countries came together for the 23rd TF-CSIRT meeting on today. 66 different FIRST teams and TERENA members were able to participate in this event hosted by Sun Microsystems. The FIRST/TF-CSIRT Seminar will continue on Tuesday.

Bell Canada Information Protection Centre Response (Bell IPCR) and Korea Financial Computer Emergency Response Team (KFCERT) have joined FIRST as full members. FIRST thanks the sponsors for their efforts and look forward to the active participation of the new members!