Cisco Hosting Amsterdam 2016 FIRST Technical Colloquium

We’d like to announce a “Save the Date” and “Call for Speakers” for the FIRST Amsterdam Technical Colloquium (TC) 2016. The event, hosted by Cisco Systems in Amsterdam, Netherlands will be a plenary style conference held on the 19th and 20th of April 2016.

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). Please register here.

A list of recommended hotels and travel information is available on our website.

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.

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

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. We are hoping to have the program on the event website by the end of February 2016, so please get in touch with us ASAP. Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Thank you,

Matt Valites & Jeff Bollinger

Cisco CSIRT