Cisco Hosting Amsterdam 2018 FIRST Technical Colloquium

We would like to announce a “Save the Date” and “Call for Speakers” for the FIRST Amsterdam Technical Colloquium (TC) 2018. The main event, hosted by Cisco Systems in Amsterdam, Netherlands will be a plenary style conference held on the 17th and 18th of April 2018. We are also offering optional, free, training sessions on Monday April 16th.

Event registration is open now. This will be free event with no registration charges (although registration is required). This event will be open to all (not just FIRST members) and fills up quickly. Note, the Monday trainings have limited seating, so please register early to avoid being turned away. Please register here.

A list of recommended hotels and travel information is available here:

https://www.first.org/events/colloquia/amsterdam2018/hotel

https://www.first.org/events/colloquia/amsterdam2018/travel

Call for Speakers

FIRST is looking for speakers that would like to present at this Technical Colloquium. This is a GREAT opportunity to give something back to FIRST and the industry, while practicing your speaking skills and sharing your hard work. We are most interested in new presentations and presenters, however important updates on prior work are also welcome. We strongly encourage any individual who has not spoken at a conference before to submit a proposal. The ideal behind the TC is to encourage security teams and researchers to share their technical work in a friendly environment. While we give special to consideration to local talent, submissions are welcome from anyone, anywhere.

Any novel ideas, techniques, case studies, or research related to incident and threat response are welcome. Some suggested topics are as follows:

Threat actor techniques

Creative incident response techniques

Indicators of compromise and how detect/mitigate

Data analytics for security

Criminal underground

Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures

Hardware security/embedded systems security

Network and OS security

Digital forensics

Human-computer interaction, security, and privacy

Intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention

Malicious code analysis, anti-virus evasion, etc.

Security architecture

Open Source tools

Attack and response to an organization

For your submission, please provide the following information:

Title

Brief Summary (Abstract)

Presenter’s Name(s), Affiliation, and short biography

Estimated Time (45 mins + 10 for questions is typical)

If you’re interested in speaking, please contact us at amsterdam-tc@first.org.

Important Note:

FIRST does not allow presentations with the aim of gaining the audience’s interest in any commercial application, solution, or product. In other words, NO MARKETING PRESENTATION. Please only submit a talk if you are actually able to attend the TC in Amsterdam.

Our goal is to have the program on the event website by the first of March, to that end please have all submissions completed by February 28th. Feel free to reply with any questions.

Thank you,

Jeff Bollinger

Cisco CSIRT