GÉANT Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are established under the auspices of GÉANT in order to create an open forum where experts from its community exchange information, knowledge, ideas and best practices about specific technical or other areas of business relevant to the research and education networking community.
The GÉANT SIG – Information Security Management is a forum for interchanging knowledge and experiences on information security management topics.
The main aims of the SIG
are to-ISM:
- establish a community of security management professionals;
- develop, maintain and promote a trust framework between NRENs based on international standards;
- promote the use of international security standards and share best practices for security management within NRENs;
- discuss and promote issues of information security management of particular interest to NRENs.
The disclosure of any discussion happening information shared within the SIG follows the ISTLP code Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) (https://www.surffirst.nl/en/services-and-products/surfcert/information-sharing-traffic-light-protocol/index.htmlorg/tlp/)
The
proposedachievements and KPIs for the
first year are summarized in the table below6th year (2021)
| Planned achievements |
|---|
Report
Two meetings organised and held either online or face to face;
due to July 2016
An activity report for the Technical Committee;
due to July 2016
Steering Committee members from at least 3 different organisations.
due to August 2015
| KPIs | Due Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Maintain a trusted network for sharing best practices and information, increase NREN participation | 2 workshops a year | May & Dec 2021 |
| Initiate and strengthen collaboration with other security working groups | 1 joint workshop with WISE Participation at the Security Day | 25 May 2021 |
| Actively participate at the GN4-3 Security work package, taking the advisory role | Support the Security Awareness group with the resources already collected Actively promote and participate in CLAW2021 Crisis management event | June & Dec 2021 |
The first The SIG-ISM Charter can be downloaded from here.
The former SIG-ISM pages can be found at https://wwwwiki.terenageant.org/activities/ism/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=13500495
Facts
This is the first 6th year of SIG-ISM1 July 2015 - 30 June 2016.
The charter of the SIG was finally approved in July 2015, but the activities of the group started before that. New charter of the SIG-ISM was approved in February 2017 by the GCC.
The SIG-ISM is jointly led by its Steering Committee
- Alf Moens (SURF) - chair
- James Davis (JISC)
- Rolf Sture Normann (UNINETT)
- Urpo Kaila (CSC)
- Fotis Gagadis (GÉANT)
Next
EventEvents
SAVE THE DATE
Joint SIG-ISM / WISE is planned to take place online on 25, May, 2021
The Steering Committees is also planning a meeting later in Autumn - 26-27 October, 2021.
TBA
Documents