GeorgiaFIRST  has been started based on the time and support of a group of volunteers.  In order to reach out to the rest of our industry in Georgia, we need certain things – like websites, legal advice, meeting places, office supplies, and more.  Those items are costly.  We are fortunate to have secured sponsors to support our efforts at this early stage – Firestorm Solutions, LLC, The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), and LeadMaster.  We would like to encourage any organization that wishes to support our efforts to contact us, either to supply services (Firestorm has created and supports this website and LeadMaster is supplying our contact database) or through donations.  Soon we will become a legal entity.  At that time we will create a more formalized structure for our sponsors.

In the meantime, please click on the logos of these organizations to learn more about them and why they could be of value to you.

Firestorm Solutions, LLC is a recognized leader in business continuity, vulnerability analysis, risk mitigation and crisis management. Staffed by attorneys, engineers, physicians, law enforcement professionals, psychologists and many other talented individuals, we work directly with our Expert Council on behalf of our clients. Firestorm maintains a network of offices in Denver, Atlanta and New York to be responsive and accessible to our international roster of clients.  

Launched in 1999, FS-ISAC was established by the financial services sector in response to 1998's Presidential Directive 63. That directive - later updated by 2003's Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 - mandated that the public and private sectors share information about physical and cyber security threats and vulnerabilities to help protect the U.S. critical infrastructure. Constantly gathering reliable and timely information from financial services providers, commercial security firms, federal, state and local government agencies, law enforcement and other trusted resources, the FS-ISAC is now uniquely positioned to quickly disseminate physical and cyber threat alerts and other critical information to your organization. This information includes analysis and recommended solutions from leading industry experts. There are currently over 4,300 members and membership is open to financial institutions of any type or size


Founded in 1998, LeadMaster is a privately held company with a mission to deliver powerful web-based contact management tools for effective distribution, tracking and data mining of sales leads.Its founders offer a wealth of experience and expertise in a variety of fields, including marketing, sales and information technology.





Please note that in accepting the support of Firestorm Solutions, LLC, the FS-ISAC and Leadmaster, GeorgiaFIRST and its volunteers are not offering an endorsement. 

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This space is dedicated to providing information that you and your organization need to know if you are going to put robust and effective plans in place to become a resilient organization.  This includes not only the background and guidelines from regulators, but also white papers, news articles, links to other web sites, in short anything which makes us all smarter.  If you believe you have information that our members would find useful, please forward that to info@georgia1st.org. 

• GeorgiaFIRST in conjunction with Firestorm has published the results of the Business Preparation Survey for Financial Institutions. (New and Noteworthy)
• The Department of the Treasury has issued a brochure describing Regional Recovery Coalitions and emphasizing Treasury's support of their activities.  Click Here to review the document.
• The Department of Homeland Security has requested Sector Specific Plans (SSP) for the different critical infrastructures to be part of the input into the National Infrastructure Protection Plan.  With the cooperation of several public and private sector groups, the SSP for the financial sector was developed.  Click Here to review the document. 
• Pandemic Planning needs to be part of every organization's business continuity plan.  The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council has issued a statement on pandemic planning, which you can view by Clicking Here.  The Department of Health and Human Services in cooperation with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention have created a business planning pandemic checklist, which can be viewed by Clicking Here.