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🌐 Elevate your presence at #FIRSTMX26
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Connect with CISOs, CSIRT leaders, and global decision-makers while showcasing your expertise in a trusted international forum.
📍 Mexico City | August 17–19
Want to support one of the community's most practitioner-focused events? https://www.coldincidentresponse.no/
The 2026 FIRST TC: #ColdIncidentResponse takes place 13–15 October in Oslo, Norway. We're looking for sponsors to help fund food, refreshments, and the community dinner for 400 attendees.
No sponsor stands. No paid talks. Just community.
🎤 Now accepting talk proposals for the Oslo 2026 FIRST TC: Cold Incident Response
Have a story, tool, or lesson learned? Whether it’s incidents, detection engineering, or threat hunting—we want to hear it.
No stage experience needed—just real, practical insights.
🗓️ Submit by July 7
📬 Feedback by August 15
🔗https://go.first.org/ASews
☕ Fuel the investigators! The 2026 FIRST TC: Cold Incident Response is returning to Oslo, Norway, 13–15 October, and we're looking for sponsors to help keep nearly 400 incident responders, analysts, and investigators well-fed and caffeinated.
Support lunches, snacks, or the community dinner while helping maintain a conference built on substance, practical experience, and independent content.
No sponsor booths. No paid speaking slots. Just community.
Interested? Reach out to [email protected].
https://www.coldincidentresponse.no/
That’s a wrap on the 38th Annual FIRST Conference in Denver. What an incredible week out west! Six days of learning, connection, and exploration with incident response professionals from around the globe. 🏔️✨
From hands‑on training to keynotes, SIGs, BoFs, lightning talks, and a buzzing exhibit hall, this year’s program delivered insights and collaboration at every turn. And of course, the conference social event brought the whole community together in true Colorado style. 🤝🌄
Thank you to everyone who joined us at altitude to strengthen global coordination and help shape the future of incident response. #FIRSTCON26
Next stop: Bangkok 🌏 Save the date for the 39th Annual FIRST Conference — we’ll see you in Thailand, June 13-18, 2027. ✨
🎉 #FIRSTCON26 has wrapped in Denver, Colorado!
The 38th Annual FIRST Conference brought together incident response teams, CERTs, government agencies, and security leaders from around the world to do what this community does best: collaborate, share intelligence, and make the ecosystem stronger.
Highlights:
✅ FIRST released its mid-year 2026 vulnerability forecast, projecting approximately 66,000 CVEs by year-end — a 46% overage against the initial annual forecast, driven largely by AI-assisted vulnerability discovery
✅ Chris Butera, Acting Executive Assistant Director for CISA's Cybersecurity Division opened the conference drawing a direct parallel between soccer team coordination and how the security community needs to operate: fast movement, shared trust, and partners who know the play before it develops
✅ Former US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis pushed back on rigid defense models, making the case for coalition defense — private sector, infrastructure providers, and governments operating together, not in parallel
✅ EPSS deployed its v2026.06.15 refresh, delivering updated exploitation probability scores for every public CVE
✅ New and critical security frameworks, tools, SIGs, and research insights aimed at automating defense and managing AI risk were showcased during the event
FIRST also welcomed its newly elected Board of Directors for the 2026–2027 term, appointing Logan Wilkins (Cisco, US) and welcoming back returning board member Mona Elisabeth Østvang (mnemonic, NO). Olivier Caleff was also re-elected as Chair of the Board of Directors, beginning his second term in the role.
A huge thank you to everyone who attended, presented, and sponsored.
Sessions will be available on YouTube in the coming weeks.
Read more: https://go.first.org/RKxUj
The final day of the 38th Annual FIRST Conference is here. 🌄
It’s been a week of learning, connection, and exploration at altitude — and today we wrap up with the last round of sessions and takeaways to bring home.
Thank you, Denver, for an incredible week.🤍
Your voice helps strengthen the global IR community.
Share your thoughts in the #FIRSTCON26 survey and help us keep improving year after year. 🏔️🤝📝
Day 4 brings another full day of sessions, SIGs, BoFs, and global collaboration.
The conversations happening here in Denver are pushing incident response forward in real, meaningful ways. One more day to go — let’s make it count. 🛡️✨
