Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST)

FIRST aspires to bring together incident response and security teams from every country across the world to ensure a safe internet for all. Founded in 1990, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) consists of incident response teams and practitioners from over 600 corporations, government bodies, universities and other institutions across 100 countries in the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Oceania.

Apart from the trust network that FIRST forms in the global incident response community, FIRST also provides value added services. Some of these include:

• access to up-to-date best practice documents
• technical colloquia for security experts
• hands-on classes
• annual incident response conference
• publications and web services
• special interest groups
• community and capacity building