(ISC)2® Announces Two New Affiliated Local Interest Groups in Asia-Pacific
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Hong Kong, September 7, 2007 – (ISC)²® (“ISC-squared”), the non-profit global leader in educating and certifying information security professionals throughout their careers, today announced that the Thailand Information Security Association (TISA) and Hong Kong Professional Information Security Association (PISA) have recently joined the (ISC)² global Affiliated Local Interest Group (ALIG) programme, which supports local information security professional associations around the world. Currently, there are six (ISC)² ALIGs in Asia-Pacific.
TISA, formed by a group of information security professionals in Thailand, aims to assist the country in rising to meet the evolving information security threats and to bridge the security divide between developing and developed countries in Asia-Pacific. TISA was launched in mid-July 2007 during an (ISC)2 member networking reception in conjunction with the Secure@Bangkok Conference, an (ISC)2 Security Leadership event.
Prinya Hom-Anek, CISSP, CISA, CISM, SANS GIAC, GCFW, CompTIA Security +, founder and acting president of TISA said, ”TISA aims to develop a solid career path for information security professionals throughout Thailand. We plan to achieve this through at least six information security awareness and other informational and networking events per year.”
PISA, founded in 2001, is a not-for-profit organization for information security professionals in Hong Kong. At the moment, PISA has about 100 members, including a majority of them being long-time (ISC)2 credential holders.
Howard Lau, CISSP, chairman of PISA (2006-2007) said, “PISA has been very active in the information security scene in Hong Kong for several years. By joining the (ISC)² ALIG programme, we are demonstrating our commitment to promoting information security awareness both within the IT industry and to the general public in Hong Kong. The ALIG programme will allow us to be more engaged in regional and international information security issues and events.”
Ed Zeitler, CISSP, executive director for (ISC)², commented, “We are excited to see more ALIGs forming in Asia-Pacific. The role of information security professionals is vital to every community. Only by educating our business community and the general public on their responsibility to be prudent Internet users can we minimize the risk and impact of security incidents. We are proud to add TISA and PISA to the growing list of ALIGs, who are raising security awareness and advancing information security professionalism one community at a time.”
more details of (ISC)2 ALIG members, please visit https://www.isc2.org/cgi-bin/content.cgi?page=634
More information is available at www.isc2.org.
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