FIRST Members 2009

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce - Computer Incident Response Team (CIBC CIRT), Canada sponsored by RBC FG CSIRT and BMO ISIRT;

Sistema Nacional de Gestión de Incidentes Telemáticos (Computer Incident Management National System - VenCERT), Venezuela sponsored by ArCERT and CCN-CERT ;

and Lithuanian National Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-LT), Lithuania sponsored by LITNET CERT and CERT-FI.

Effective October 1st: · KIT-CERT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Computer Emergency Response Team), Germany · ECS-CSIRT (Electronic Communications Security, National Intelligence Agency, Government of South Africa) . HR-CERT (Croatian National CERT) · IT-ISAC (Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center), USA

FIRST thanks the sponsors for their efforts and look forward to the active participation of the new members!

Please join us in welcoming the newest FIRST members: mixi Incident Response Team (Japan); CERT NIC.LV (Latvia); Cyber Defense Institute Incident Response Team (CDI-CIRT), Japan and Liaison Member Gary Lawlor (Canada). Congratulations!

Please join us in welcoming the newest FIRST members: Effective February 1st is full team member Portcullis Computer Incident Response and Forensics Team (PCIRF), UK and Liaison Members Ken Van Wyk, USA and Bernie Rosen, USA. FIRST thanks the sponsors for their efforts and we look forward to the active participation of Portcullis and continued support from Ken and Bernie!

New Member Update! Please join us in welcoming the following new members to FIRST: Effective December 1st: UiO-CERT (University of Oslo), Norway and Rakuten-CERT, Japan. New members in January 2009 include: Adam Laurie, UK (liaison and formerly of the Bunker team); INTECO-CERT, Spain; MSIRT (Moneris Solutions), Canada and SecOps (Shell IT Services), Malaysia. FIRST thanks the sponsors for their efforts and look forward to the active participation of the new members!

The world’s economic woes haven’t stopped unprecedented levels of sponsorship being pledged for the 21st Annual Conference of FIRST with six months still to go before proceedings open on June 28, 2009, in Kyoto.