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INCITS Establishes New Study Group on Security Best Practices
Interested Parties Welcome at September 19, 2007 Formation Meeting
Contact: Jennifer Garner
jgarner@itic.org
202-626-5737
Washington, D.C. – August 1, 2007 - The InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) Executive Board today announced the establishment of the INCITS Study Group on Security Best Practices. The Study Group will examine the security needs and requirements of the financial and insurance service industries to assess missing elements in current standards and practices. Based on its findings, the Study Group will make a recommendation to the INCITS Executive Board on an approach to create deployable best practices and frameworks for security in these industries.
Mr. Edward Stull, sponsored by Direct Computer Resources, Inc., has been asked to lead the INCITS Study Group on Security Best Practices and noted, “As a 20+ year member of INCITS, I know that the Study Group can offer the financial services and insurance communities a grand and well-grounded opportunity with the means to develop an internationally focused collection of formal standards that bring together the many international and national security-related organizations, standards, practices and technologies.”
“The establishment of this new Study Group is an exciting venture for INCITS as a leader in national and international voluntary consensus standardization in the field of information and communications technologies,” said Jennifer Garner, Director of Standards Programs for INCITS. “INCITS welcomes the opportunity to assist financial and insurance service industry leaders investigating standards-based solutions to satisfy their need for deployable best practices and frameworks for security.”
The formation meeting of the INCITS Study Group on Security Best Practices will be held September 19, 2007 at 3:00 PM in conjunction with the Financial Services Technology (FST) Summit at The Boulders Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Membership on the INCITS Study Group on Security Best Practices is open to all directly and materially affected parties that meet attendance, voting and service fee requirements. Companies and individuals interested in joining the Study Group and attending the September 19 formation meeting should contact Lynn Barra at lbarra@itic.org. Additional details on the Study Group will be posted to the INCITS web site (www.incits.org) as they become available. Media inquiries should be directed to Jennifer Garner at jgarner@itic.org.
About INCITS
Since its establishment in 1961, the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) has provided the forum of choice for information technology developers, producers and users for the creation and maintenance of ICT standards. The mission of INCITS is to promote the effective use of Information and Communication Technology through standardization in a way that balances the interests of all stakeholders and increases the global competitiveness of the member organizations. INCITS serves as the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, which is responsible for international standardization in the field of information technology. Membership in INCITS is open to all stakeholders. Currently INCITS is comprised of 1700 member organizations from 13 countries. The INCITS Executive Board has 18 member organizations including representation from the ICT industry’s leading hardware and software providers. INCITS and the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) are jointly accredited by, and operate under rules
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