Wow, it is hard to believe that it has already been over 3 months since the annual conference! I hope everyone has been able to continue leveraging the knowledge gained and the relationships formed or strengthened at the conference to empower your local security communities and beyond.
In June 2023, attendees at the 35th Annual FIRST Conference, in Montréal, Canada got a first-look preview of the new version of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), version 4.0. After two month of public comment followed by two months of addressing those comments, FIRST is proud to announce the official publication of CVSS version 4.0. November 1st, 2023 – Critical in the interface between supplier and consumer, CVSS provides a way to capture the principal characteristics of a security vulnerability and produces a numerical score reflecting its technical severity to inform and provide guidance to businesses, service providers, government, and the public.
The first meeting of the board, post annual conference, has, in the past, been the time when the next year’s plans are reviewed, responsibilities are discussed and the budget and business plans are initiated.
We changed the 2022 and 2023 Conference program so we could hold the AGM earlier in the week - this year we did the AGM at the start of the week. This enabled the new board to meet with its new membership during the conference - allowing us to start much of the preparation work earlier.
Since 2020 the FIRST infrastructure team has run an identity provider (IdP), referred to as FIRST SSO, to secure and control access to FIRST services. This system is used for members, volunteers, event attendees, guests, the board of directors, and the operations team.
There are currently over thirty services, including: FIRST Portal, Slack, Wiki, MISP, API, eVoting, many administrative tools, as well as the recently added Capture the Flag and Learning platforms that leverage FIRST SSO.
The Special Interest Groups are fairly busy, here is what is going on with some of them right now:
FIRSTCON24: Bridging Security Response Gaps
Save the Date!
Get ready to join us for the 2024 FIRST Annual Conference, June 9-14 in Fukuoka, Japan! The information website is available and online registration opening will be in November. For those interested in submitting a presentation, please keep the following dates in mind:
This quarter, 3 new Liaisons and 19 Teams joined as members: from Europe (14), APAC (3), LATAM (3), North America (2).
February 26-March 1, 2024
Tenerife, Spain
March 5-7, 2024
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hosted by Human Security, Cisco
April 15-17, 2024
Berlin, Germany
Mercure Hotel MOA Berlin
June 9-14, 2024
Fukuoka, Japan
Visit our event calendar for a full list of the many meetings and activities on the horizon and learn how to register for each.