THE 13th ANNUAL FIRST CONFERENCE on
                 COMPUTER SECURITY and INCIDENT HANDLING
                   TOULOUSE, FRANCE - June 17-22, 2001


           FUTURE INCIDENT RESPONSE: OPTIMIZING THE ANSWERS NOW


                             CALL FOR PAPERS


OVERVIEW
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The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST,
http://www.first.org/) brings security incident response teams
together including government, commercial, and academic
organizations. World-wide, FIRST aims to foster cooperation and
coordination in incident prevention, to prompt rapid response to
incidents, and to promote information sharing among members and the
global community.

The FIRST conference (http://www.first.org/conference/2001/) brings
together IT managers, system and network administrators, security
specialists, academia, security solutions vendors, computer security
incident response team (CSIRT) personnel and anyone interested in

- the most advanced techniques in detecting and responding to
   computer security incidents
- the latest advances in computer security tools, methodologies,
   and practice
- sharing their views and experiences with those in the computer 
   security incident response field

THE CONFERENCE
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The conference is a five day event, comprising two days of tutorials
and three days of technical sessions which include refereed paper
presentations, invited talks, and panel discussions.

[snip ** please see url above for full CFP, pertinent addreses and forms]

IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: November 22, 2000
Notification of acceptance: January 19, 2001
Final version of the paper due: March 12, 2001
Final presentation material (slides) due: May 15, 2001