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
proposeddisclosure of any information shared within the SIG follows the Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) (https://www.first.org/tlp/)
The achievements and KPIs for the
first year are summarized in the table below9th year (2024)
| 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 / year | April & June 2024 |
| Initiate and strengthen collaboration with other security working groups | SIG-ISM/ WISE Meeting @ Security Days in Prague Participation @ TNC24 - 1 joint meeting/workshop with WISE | 9-11 April 2024 10 June 2024 |
| Actively participate at the GN5-2 Security work package, taking the advisory role | Support the Security Awareness group with the resources already collected Actively promote and participate in CLAW2024 Crisis management event & Cybersecurity Month |
|
The first The SIG-ISM Charter can be downloaded from 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
first9th year of SIG-ISM
1 July 2015 - 30 June 2016.
The charter of the SIG was
finallyapproved 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 (
SURFGÉANT) - chair
- James Davis (JISC)
Rolf Sture Normann (
UNINETTSIKT)
- Wayne Routly
Urpo Kaila (
GÉANT)CSC)
1 Open spot! Do you want to join?
Steering Committee's page
Coordinator: Ana Afonso
Next Events
SIG-ISM Autumn Meeting 2024 - click here to register.
8-9th October 2024 - GÉANT Hoekenrode 3 6th floor 1102 BR Amsterdam The Netherlands
Hotels nearby:
Jaz in the City Amsterdam - Design Hotel in Amsterdam | H Rewards
Amsterdam-Zuidoost Hotel - business & leisure - Courtyard by Marriott Amsterdam
Holiday Inn Express Hotel - Arena Towers, Amsterdam (ihg.com)