Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams: Difference between revisions

The '''Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams''' is a worldwide organization of trusted computer response teams dedicated  FIRST in preventing cyber security attacks. The members of FIRST work together in exchanging information regarding new vulnerabilities and in handling wide range computer security attack particularly on the servers of the Domain Name System ([[DNS]]).<ref>[http://www.first.org/about About FIRST]</ref>

FIRST was established in 1990 to resolve the underlying problem of difficulty in communications between incident response teams around the world because of the differences in languages, time zones as well as international standards, which became evident during the '''wank worm''' attack in 1989. Since the establishment of FIRST, the organization progressed and its membership continued to increase.<ref>[http://www.first.org/about/history FIRST History]</ref>

FIRST and [[ICANN]] had been working collaboratively to ensure the operational stability, reliability. security and global interoperability of the internet and to determine the occurrences of DNS abuses as well as the different internet security risks. ICANN's Computer Incident Response Team ([[ICANN CIRT]]) was created in 2009 and it is a full member of FIRST.<ref>[http://www.first.org/members/teams/icann_cirt ICANN CIRT]</ref> On March 5-8, 2010, during the [[ICANN 37]] Meeting in Nairobi Kenya, FIRST and ICANN partnered in conducting a four day workshop on cyber-security for the African Incident Response Teams. The two organizations provided case studies in network security response, hands on training on DNS security, network protection and handling. According to ICANN's Director for Global Security Programs [[Yurie Ito]], ''"We had participation from across Africa, and as a result we now see a number of countries interested in setting up their own national-level cyber security incident response teams. Through our work with FIRST, we hope to set the stage for a better level of Internet security throughout the African continent."''<ref>[http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/03/prweb3695284.htm International Workshop Endorses Principles of Security Incident Response for Africa]</ref>