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-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 information shared within the SIG follows the ISTLP code (https://www.surf.nl/en/services-and-products/surfcert/information-sharing-traffic-light-protocol/index.html)
The achievements and KPIs for the third year
| Planned achievements | KPIs | Due Date |
|---|---|---|
| Maintain a trusted network for sharing best practices and information, increase NREN participation | 2 workshops a year + SIG-ISM open meeting at TNC18 | Dec 2018 |
| Support regional collaboration groups | 2 blog posts to (1) inform the NREN community about the regional groups (2) follow up on their progress at the end of the year Organise regional groups meetings + sessions at SIG-ISM workshops | Dec 2018 |
| Support and promote Working Group 3 - Security Awareness | Set up a mailing list Blog post to inform the NREN community about the WG Presentation at TNC18 SIG-ISM session | Sep 2018 |
| Implementation of security management for NRENs | A set of documents produced and published | Oct 2018 |
The achievements and KPIs for the second year
| Planned achievements | KPIs | Due Date |
|---|---|---|
| Create and maintain a trusted network for sharing best practices and information | 2 workshops a year Chat room | Dec 2017 |
| Increase NREN participation and regional collaboration in the area of information security management | Set up 2-3 regional groups Engage 2-3 new NREN members | Dec 2017 |
| Design an inventory for security officers | Design a structure for an online platform Collect information from 4 pioneering NRENs/Institutions | Sep 2017 |
| Implementation of security management for NRENs | Set up a working group First documents produced and published | 2018 |
The achievements and KPIs for the first year
Planned achievements and KPIs | Report |
|---|---|
Two meetings organised and held either online or face to face; | July 2016 |
An activity report for the Technical Committee; | July 2016 |
Steering Committee members from at least 3 different organisations. | August 2015 |
The activity report of the first year can be found here.
The first SIG-ISM Charter can be downloaded from here.
The former SIG-ISM pages can be found at https://www.terena.org/activities/ism/
Facts
This is the third year of SIG-ISM
The charter of the SIG was 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)
Next Event
The next SIG-ISM meeting will take place at the beginning of 2019.