NatCSIRT Conference Preview - July 17-18 in Seoul, South Korea

The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), a recognized global leader in incident response, has announced the line-up for its 28th Annual Conference, which takes place this June (12th – 18th) in Seoul, South Korea. Opening the conference will be Professor Jong In Lim, Professor of the Graduate School of Information Security at Korea University, and the former Special Adviser in Security to the President. He will deliver a keynote on Korea’s cybersecurity status and its direction toward a better future and consider how the world can respond to global cyber threats by taking a “Security First” approach. Professor Jong in Lim leads a conference program that includes 7 days of workshops, keynote addresses and speaker presentations delivered by industry experts and organisations as diverse as the United Nations and CISCO Systems. Topics under discussion at this year’s conference range from threat intelligence sharing and detecting targeted web compromises, to the missing links between cybercrime gangs and the dark side of online advertisements. Each day of the conference will open with a keynote from an expert in information technology and cyber security, with speakers such as Doug Dooley from Venrock, who will provide a Silicon Valley VC perspective on the subject of Fostering Security Innovation. Kee Seung Baik, President and CEO of the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA), the local host of the conference, said that it is a privilege to host the largest and most prestigious cyber incident response conference in Seoul. How valuable are the annual NatCSIRT Conferences to security professionals around the globe? Share your comments with the Cloud and Cyber Security Center: http://cloudandcybersecurity.blogspot.com/