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The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) will hold the 14th Annual FIRST Computer Security Conference at the Hilton Waikoloa Beach Village on The Big Island of Hawaii June 23 - 28, 2002. Hawaii was selected as the site for Conference because of its cultural diversity and its proximity to the Pacific Rim Countries. FIRST is striving to bridge the computer security gap between the countries of Asia and the rest of its global membership.
This conference is international in scope and attendance, with presentations on the latest in incident response and prevention, vulnerability analysis, and computer security, given by recognized experts in the field of computer security. A copy of the Preliminary Agenda is available on the FIRST web site www.first.org.
Participants include representatives from FIRST member teams (currently over 100 teams with a combined international constituency reaching into the millions) in addition to non-members representing policy and decision-makers, security technology innovators, site security contacts, and system and network administrators. Member teams include vendors such as Cisco Systems and IBM, ISPs such as Worldcom/UUNET and AT&T, and security companies or organizations such as CERT Coordination Center, ISS, and Network Associates. There have been approximately 325 participants, representing more than 35 countries in attendance at each of the past two conferences.
FIRST conferences are designed to promote FIRST organization goals of worldwide coordination and cooperation. It serves as the foundation for the improvement of computer security worldwide by sharing goals, ideas, and information. It provides a prime opportunity for those in the operating system, computer security and networking, and telecommunications industries to gain focused access to a highly influential group of computer security incident response experts from around the world. Conference attendees commonly provide computer security advice within their own Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) and suggest security strategies, provide technical solutions to security problems, and deliver security education and training to their constituents.
FIRST solicits partial sponsorship for the annual conferences. Past sponsors include companies such as
Alcatel, British Telecom, Cisco, Citigroup, France Telecom, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Tele Denmark, SBC, Veridian, and XP Conseil. | |
