Mrs.Mona Østvang

Vice chair, FIRST Board of Directors

Mona holds a master of technology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in information security. She has for the past 15 years worked in the cyber security domain, specializing on Incident Response. She has been the incident manager for several large cyber security incidents for various organizations in the private and public sector, and worked on helping customers prepare for responding to such incidents through incident response frameworks, training and exercises.
In June 2021, Mona was elected to the board of Forum of incident response and security teams (FIRST). She is currently the board member responsible for FIRST events and holds the position of vice chair. She is also the conference chair of the FIRST annual conference taking place in Copenhagen June 2025.