FIRST: Education Program and Services Frameworks

Summary

The project developed frameworks that assist organisations in building, maintaining, and growing capabilities of their CSIRT or PSIRTs. The project also developed a platform of free online courses.

Details

Aim
The Frameworks are to assist organisations in building, maintaining, and growing capabilities of their CSIRT or PSIRTs. The frameworks are a guide and identify various models, capabilities, services and outcomes. In this way, teams are free to implement their own model and to build capabilities that meet their Stakeholder’s unique needs. The Frameworks seek to assist SIRTs by identifying core responsibilities, providing guidance on how to build capabilities to meet those responsibilities and offering insights on how SIRT teams can add and communicate value to their larger organizations.

The Frameworks contribute to technical discussions which add to the wider Internet Governance debates

Outputs

• Currently the CSIRT Services Framework (PDF) is available at version 1.1 and the PSIRT Services Framework (PDF) at a draft version 1.0.
• Development of basic training materials, a Fusion course and course material
• Development of a platform for online courses https://learning.first.org/

Activities

• Development of CSIRT and PSIRT Services Framework that details all services typically offered by CSIRT, offers a roadmap and guide for CSIRT as they expand capability
• Development of training for individual services: CSIRT Fundamentals, Incident Coordination, Information Sources. All materials are Creative Commons licensed and available for free.
• Delivery of training with partners and at events
• Roster of trainer-practitioners

Additional contact details
FIRST, via the FIRST secretariat at first-sec@first.org or Serge Droz, Director, Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), serge@first.org

For more information see FIRST website.