The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) is a global non-profit organization dedicated to bringing together computer security incident response teams (CSIRTs) and includes response teams from over 200 corporations, government bodies, universities and other institutions spread across the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.

Conference Theme
FIRST's contention, and the theme of its 2010 conference, is that the evolved threat landscape and the new, ruthless and sophisticated aggressors who inhabit it demand from us major rethinking of security attitudes and polices: a standardized, international approach that moves security from the business of technical adjustment and oversight to a front-line and infrastructural role in the way the critical data itself is managed and the methods used to store, shield and transport it.