38th Annual FIRST Conference 2026

The 38th Annual FIRST Conference 2026 is dedicated to incident response and security.

Key Topics

• Digital Investigations Tools, Resources, and Procedures
• Incident Response Tools and Procedures
• Threats: Human Rights, Emerging, Insider, Financial, International, Critical Infrastructure, Privacy
• Information Sharing: Tool, process, or protocol updates, Indicator Sharing, technical and non-technical knowledge sharing
• Legal, Deterrence, & Standards
• Challenges in managing a team
• Technical Deep-Dives/Hands-on-Demos

Who should Attend

• Policy and decision makers with overall security responsibility
• Technical staff who determine security product requirements and implement solutions
• Legal counsel who work with policy and decision makers in establishing security policies
• Law enforcement staff who are involved in investigating cyber crimes
• Government managers and senior executives who are responsible for protecting systems and critical infrastructures
• Senior managers directly charged with protecting their infrastructure

First is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing together computer security incident response teams (CSIRTs) and includes response teams from over 240 government bodies, corporations, universities and other institutions from across Asia, Europe, the Americas and Oceania.