Developing security expertise and excellence within the NREN community
The Special Interest Group on Information Security Management (SIG-ISM) offers all Information Security Professionals of national research and education network (NREN) organisations the opportunity to share best practices and learn from each others’ experience, to safeguard their NREN against security incidents and threats.
Taking part in SIG-ISM can help equip NRENs with the skills to manage information security within their research and education community.
The SIG actively reaches out to experts across a range of roles, including but not limited to:
- CISO or similar roles
- Information Security Manager
- Security Analyst
- Information Security Specialist
- Risk Analyst
- Information Security Risk Manager
- Crisis or Business Continuity Manager
SIG-ISM objectives
Build a community
- Maintain and develop the SIG as a community of security management professionals with the intention of establishing trust on a personal level.
- To actively engage in attracting new members to the group, who are willing to learn, to share and to connect.
Promote information security management
- Promote the use of recognised international security standards and share best practices and lessons learned for security management within RENs
- Respect but also unite the diverse approaches to information security management.
- Establish itself as a body of knowledge with respect to the fields of information security management and using this position to help RENs with security management, by supporting members in understanding and achieving security compliance and discussing and promoting issues of information security management of particular interest to GÉANT members.
Share best practices of information security technology
- Act as a forum and provide the technical and organisational means to share threats, incidents, experiences and other relevant security intelligence confidentially, and provide feedback.
Facilitate collaboration
- Actively engage in cooperation with other SIGs and communities, act as a mentor, review panel and guiding body for the Security work package of the GÉANT project and other Security initiatives in the community.