OISSG elects new president, board member Jeremy Martin
[author:Jeremy Martin Public time:Oct 21, 2007] |
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Colorado Springs, CO, October 05, 2007: Colorado Springs chapter member Jeremy Martin was elected President of the Open Information System Security Group (OISSG). “I am honored to accept this position and hope to keep the momentum growing. Hard work from subject matter experts worldwide have made the ISSAF what it is today”, said Jeremy Martin. Over the next year, Mr. Martin plans on building the ground work to increase the number of active chapters and grow OISSG. “These are exciting times. With the recent release of vendor neutral industry certifications focusing on Information Security, Penetration Testing, and Forensics, there is a lot of opportunity in the industry and a need for standardization. The ISSAF provides a strong framework and a good starting point”.
About OISSG
OISSG a not-for-profit organization Head Quartered in London. Its vision is to spread information security awareness by hosting an environment where security enthusiasts from all over the globe share and build knowledge.
The Open Information Systems Security Group (OISSG) was established with the objective of evolving a set of Open Standards, Guidelines and Best Practices Collection in the area of information security. As a first step in this direction, a comprehensive framework for the assessment of information systems security has been released. Titled as ISSAF – Information Systems Security Assessment Framework – you can download a copy of ISSAF draft 0.2 from: http://www.oissg.org/issaf
ISSAF covers major information technology platforms, most high level IT related operational processes, and is intended to be applicable to major industry verticals such as banking, manufacturing and services. This ubiquity of ISSAF is intended to ease its adoption as the preferred security assessment framework by IT departments worldwide. In the process of this adoption OISSG seeks to position it as the basis for accrediting an organization’s information security systems at the level of technical specifications that have been tried and tested by leading security practitioners worldwide. For more information, please visit www.oissg.org.
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