👀 ICYMI: FIRST Q3 2025 Highlights

The past few months have been incredibly productive for the FIRST community!

✅ #FIRSTCON25 Copenhagen Success - Over 40 TLP-CLEAR presentations now available on YouTube

✅ New FIRST CORE Initiative - Expanding our Community and Capacity Building Program globally

✅ Completed Season 1 of "Improving Security Across Nations with FIRST," featuring spotlight segments with global representation, designed to showcase member expertise and impact

✅ Digital Sovereignty Insights - Exploring community-driven approaches to tech independence

✅ SIG Innovations - Launched weekly malware analysis challenges for community education and welcomed the new Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting SIG

✅ Global Training Expansion - Continued capacity building in underserved regions

📖 Read our complete Q3 newsletter for more updates, details on upcoming events, and how you can get involved: https://go.first.org/SffSq

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#InfoSec #IncidentResponse

Effective cybersecurity capacity building in action: FIRST’s partnership with PaCSON showcases collaborative incident response development!

#FIRSTCON25 brought together Pacific region CSIRTs from Kiribati, Palau, Tonga, New Zealand, Vanuatu, and Australia for workshops on digital forensics, AI applications, and incident case studies.

Read more: https://go.first.org/p5yeY

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#IncidentResponse #infosec

Exciting coverage from Kevin Poireault at Infosecurity Magazine on the launch of Draugnet, a new anonymous threat reporting platform that was demonstrated at #FIRSTCON25!

The article highlights how Trey Darley, a Belgian security researcher, and Alexandre Dulaunoy, the head of the Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg (CIRCL) (both FIRST Members) are democratizing cyber threat intelligence reporting with this innovative MISP-based platform.

Draugnet's mission and capabilities:

🔍 Anonymous threat reporting without account registration or login requirements
📊 Simple machine-readable JSON format for vulnerability reports and threat intelligence
⚡ Designed "for quiet defenders, rotating trust groups, and anyone caught between responsible stewardship and unmanageable risk"
🛡️ Built on the open-source MISP

Read more: https://go.first.org/8FA3i

#cybersecurity #infosec #VulnerabilityManagement

🌍 #FIRSTCON25 is a wrap! What an incredible week in Copenhagen, Denmark with 1,000+ cybersecurity professionals from 100+ countries. The record-breaking attendance demonstrates the critical importance of international partnership in addressing today's complex threat landscape.

Highlights from our 37th Annual Conference:

🚀 Launched FIRST CORE initiative with Fortinet
🤝 Announced Canada-UK Common Good Cyber Fund
🎉 Welcomed Olivier Caleff as new FIRST Chair and Graciela Martinez Giordano to the Board of Directors
🏆 Inducted Rich Pethia into our Incident Response Hall of Fame

📺 Stay tuned - TLP:CLEAR talks will be available on the FIRST YouTube channel later this summer!

Read more: https://go.first.org/2ZcSY

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#infosec #security