Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
🌎 In this week's "Improving Security Across Nations with FIRST" video series, we spotlight Derek Manky, Chief Security Strategist and Global VP of Threat Intelligence at Fortinet, and FIRST CORE Founding Partner.
He shares how Fortinet's founding partnership with FIRST CORE is closing the cyber skills gap and strengthening incident response worldwide:
âś… Founding partner commitment - FIRST CORE (Community, Operations, Resilience, Empower) builds on Fortinet's 15-year FIRST membership, funding FIRST's Community and Capacity Building Program to develop incident response capabilities in under-resourced regions
âś… Real-world impact - FIRST CORE has powered tabletop exercises like Cyber Crisis Unplugged in Copenhagen, the AfricaCERT-FIRST remote cyber drill, and Mobile Training Lab pilots across The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, and New Zealand
âś… Standards-driven defense - Fortinet integrates FIRST's EPSS and CVSS frameworks into a threat radar combining exploit prediction and criticality scoring, feeding SOC teams through SIEM/SOAR for faster, more accurate incident response
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🌎 In this week's "Improving Security Across Nations with FIRST" video series, we spotlight Derek Manky, Chief Security Strategist and Global VP of Threat Intelligence at Fortinet, and FIRST CORE Founding Partner.
He shares how Fortinet's founding partnership with FIRST CORE is closing the cyber skills gap and strengthening incident response worldwide:
âś… Founding partner commitment - FIRST CORE (Community, Operations, Resilience, Empower) builds on Fortinet's 15-year FIRST membership, funding FIRST's Community and Capacity Building Program to develop incident response capabilities in under-resourced regions
âś… Real-world impact - FIRST CORE has powered tabletop exercises like Cyber Crisis Unplugged in Copenhagen, the AfricaCERT-FIRST remote cyber drill, and Mobile Training Lab pilots across The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, and New Zealand
âś… Standards-driven defense - Fortinet integrates FIRST's EPSS and CVSS frameworks into a threat radar combining exploit prediction and criticality scoring, feeding SOC teams through SIEM/SOAR for faster, more accurate incident response
đź“ş Watch!
