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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">Panamá
            2018 FIRST Symposium</span></u><span
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">Panamá
          City, 1st and 2nd May, 2018</span><span
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">The
          FIRST Symposium will be co-located with LACNIC 29 and
          co-hosted by CERT.br.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">Attendees
          are expected to be comprised of FIRST members, CSIRTs from the
          Latin American and Caribbean Region that are not members yet,
          plus network operators and security professionals from the LAC
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          for Speakers </span><span
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">We
          are seeking for colleagues interested in presenting during the
          FIRST Symposium (FS). Some suggested topics are as follows: </span><span
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">•     
          Case studies and lessons learned in incident handling</span><span
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">•     
          Attacks detection, mitigation and remediation</span><span
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">•     
          Network monitoring, situation awareness, etc., related with
          security topics</span><span
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">•     
          Attack trend updates(malware,bots,DDoS,etc.) </span><span
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">•     
          DNS, IPv6 and routing security and best practices </span><span
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">•     
          Digital forensics applied to incident handling</span><span
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">•     
          Malware analysis, anti-virus evasion, etc</span><span
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          Security and Internet of Things</span><span
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          Impact of data breaches, privacy and data protection
          regulation on incident handling</span><span
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">•     
          Incident response tools, trends and security technologies</span><span
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          Security awareness initiatives</span><span
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">•     
          Other topics relevant to incident handling </span><span
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">For
          your submission, please provide the following information to:
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            href="mailto:panama-sym-pc@lacnic.net"
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">Deadline:
          28th of February.</span><span
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">1.
                     Title </span><span
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          Brief Summary (Abstract) </span><span
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          Presenter's Name, Affiliation and short Bio </span><span
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          Estimated Time ( 30 min – 45 min ) </span><span
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          29 event site:</span><span
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            href="http://www.lacnic.net/2386/44/evento/welcome-to-lacnic29"
            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
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              ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD" lang="ES-TRAD">http://www.lacnic.net/2386/44/evento/welcome-to-lacnic29</span></a></span><span
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          FIRST SYMPOSIUM</span><span
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            href="https://www.first.org/events/calendar/"
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              lang="ES-TRAD">https://www.first.org/events/calendar/</span></a></span><span
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">Venue
          information and Registration link will be provided soon. <br>
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color:#1F497D;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD;mso-fareast-language:ES-TRAD">Best
          regards,<br>
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      <u>Panama FIRST Symposium Program Committee</u><br>
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        Cristine Hoepers CERT.br<br>
        Paula Venosa CERT UNLP<br>
        Ernesto Pérez CSIRT CEDIA<br>
        Adli Wahid FIRST Board<br>
        Graciela Martínez LACNIC WARP </div>
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