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Public Policy SIG
Mission
The Public Policy SIG formulates and promotes FIRST's position on policy and governance matters in an international context. It advocates the values of FIRST and supports policymakers with factual information, enabling them to understand the needs of incident responders and the importance of global cooperation in securing cyberspace.
The SIG promotes FIRST initiatives, but does not lobby. SIG members can, with the approval of the board, represent FIRST in relevant meetings to promote FIRST's position and values.
The SIG formulates and documents FIRST's policy position and maintains the FIRST policymaker training.
Goals & Deliverables
Cybersecurity has long been not only a technical topic, but also a governance issue. As early as 2003, the UN Governmental Group of Experts on the use of ICTs began discussing cybersecurity issues. This culminated in the statement that international law holds in cyberspace and the identification of eleven norms of responsible state behavior. At the same time, regional organizations such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) started working on Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) with the goal of improving collaboration in cybersecurity matters among participating states. The subsequent UN Groups of Governmental Experts (GGEs) as well as the more inclusive Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) further developed this into the UN Framework for responsible behavior in cyberspace, which rests on four pillars:
- International law holds in cyberspace
- States should implement the eleven norms of responsible state behavior
- States should implement CBMs
- States should invest in capacity building
The UN framework touches on FIRST's work in many areas. For example, FIRST's code of ethics (ethicsFIRST) is rooted in international law, namely the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Furthermore, CERTs are explicitly mentioned in existing norms and CBMs. FIRST operates its own capacity building program. For these reasons, FIRST has contributed for many years to policy processes and discussed its stance in an informal group of interested volunteers. FIRST is increasingly recognized as a key stakeholder in discussions around cybersecurity and incident response. Its global scope gives the organization a reputation of being competent and neutral.
Thus, we would like to create a formal special interest group (SIG) to help advising on FIRST's position and engagement in governance and policy matters.
Chairs
- Sherif Hashem
- Koichiro (Sparky) Komiyama
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- policy-sig@first.org (subscribers only; please complete the Request to Join form below)
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- Academic Security SIG
- AI Security SIG
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- Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS-SIG)
- CSIRT Framework Development SIG
- Cyber Insurance SIG
- Cyber Threat Intelligence SIG
- Curriculum
- Introduction
- Introduction to CTI as a General topic
- Methods and Methodology
- Priority Intelligence Requirement (PIR)
- Source Evaluation and Information Reliability
- Machine and Human Analysis Techniques (and Intelligence Cycle)
- Threat Modelling
- Training
- Standards
- Glossary
- Communicating Uncertainties in CTI Reporting
- Webinars and Online Training
- Building a CTI program and team
- Curriculum
- Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting SIG
- Digital Safety SIG
- DNS Abuse SIG
- Stakeholder Advice
- Detection
- Cache Poisoning
- Creation of Malicious Subdomains Under Dynamic DNS Providers
- DGA Domains
- DNS As a Vector for DoS
- DNS Beacons - C2 Communication
- DNS Rebinding
- DNS Server Compromise
- DNS Tunneling
- DoS Against the DNS
- Domain Name Compromise
- Dynamic DNS (as obfuscation technique)
- Fast Flux (as obfuscation technique)
- Infiltration and exfiltration via the DNS
- Lame Delegations
- Local Resolver Hijacking
- Malicious registration of (effective) second level domains
- On-path DNS Attack
- Stub Resolver Hijacking
- Detection
- Code of Conduct & Other Policies
- Examples of DNS Abuse
- Stakeholder Advice
- Ethics SIG
- Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
- FIRST Multi-Stakeholder Ransomware SIG
- Human Factors in Security SIG
- Industrial Control Systems SIG (ICS-SIG)
- Information Exchange Policy SIG (IEP-SIG)
- Information Sharing SIG
- Law Enforcement SIG
- Malware Analysis SIG
- Metrics SIG
- NETSEC SIG
- Public Policy SIG
- PSIRT SIG
- Red Team SIG
- Security Lounge SIG
- Security Operations Center SIG
- Threat Intel Coalition SIG
- Traffic Light Protocol (TLP-SIG)
- Transportation and Mobility SIG
- Vulnerability Coordination
- Vulnerability Reporting and Data eXchange SIG (VRDX-SIG)
- Women of FIRST
- CCB Initiatives
- FIRST CORE
- Internet Governance
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- Fellowship Program
- Mentorship Program
- IR Hall of Fame
- Victim Notification
- Volunteers at FIRST
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- Special Interest Groups (SIGs)