👀 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

#CyberDefense #CyberSecurity
#InfoSec #IncidentResponse

#FIRSTCON25 TLP:CLEAR sessions are now available for viewing. Shameless plug for my New ASNs talk included. Full play list: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBAUUhONOrO81e07ErZclykFgacbncbSZ

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

#CyberDefense #cybersecurity
#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

💭 As we reflect on the week we've had at #FIRSTCON25; we've love for you to share your favorite moments from this week below 🔗 https://go.first.org/Nz2u9

@malmoeb Agreed. And thanks for your talk @ #FIRSTCON25. It was both funny, enlightening and an argument for when I’m in a discussion about whether chasing advanced adversaries are worth while. 😀

🌍 #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

#cybersecurity #CyberDefense
#infosec #security

Que 🎶Closing Time🎶 and catch our Friday keynote and closing remarks today to wrap up #FIRSTCON25 🔗 https://go.first.org/Nz2u9 #weresadtoo #closingremarks #keynote

If you weren't able to connect with those you wanted to during lunch, make sure to find them at the networking break this afternoon at 15:45! 🤝 #FIRSTCON25 #secconf🔗 https://go.first.org/Nz2u9

Final Tips and takeaways:

You always have a choice
Less is more
Build in a non-work schedule
…

#FIRSTCON25

Leaders and Organisations need to play their part. Understand the load, focus teams, provide support.

The onus to reduce burnout is more on leaders than individuals. Executives must be on the hook to foster an environment that minimzes burnout.

#FIRSTCON25

Build Resilience: Widen your capacity for stress by bringing in controlled stressors

Build smaller plans/action packs for achieving a goal

Look at long-term problems

If all else fails, leave

#FIRSTCON25

Burnout is NOT a badge of honour

#FIRSTCON25

Physical symptoms of burnout:

#FIRSTCON25

Emotional symptoms of burnout:

#FIRSTCON25

Next up today… Burnout: Detect, Investigate, Respond, Recover, Prevention — Désirée Sacher, Carson Zimmerman

#FIRSTCON25

⚡ Are you ready for another round of #LightningTalks?! ⚡ Get ready and get excited for this afternoon at #FIRSTCON25 🔗https://go.first.org/LV4lq

A Story about Fighting Disinformation or How We Helped the Russian Trolls — Krassimir Tzvetanov

#FIRSTCON25

Official blog: THE FORCES (4S): Strategy, Security, and Social Systems Initiative
https://forces.systems/io/tutorials/influenceops101/index.html

We are especially interested in our SIG’s this week at #FIRSTCON25 😉 Stay informed by attending the SIG Updates today at 10:20! 🔗https://go.first.org/LV4lq

Bring your dancing shoes this evening folks! 💃🕺 Can't wait to see you tonight at 19:00 for the conference social for #FIRSTCON25 🎤#letsdance🔗https://go.first.org/LV4lq