Regards,
--Paul Nikolich
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Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 12:06 PM
Subject: Announcement: IEEE IA Standards Workshop
Sponsored by the TFIA and the IEEE SA working with IASC,
this workshop is meant to make people aware of these IA standards projects,
get their feedback, and recruit volunteers for the first WG meetings to be held
in early 2004.
Please circulate the announcement, and
attend!
thanks
Jack
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SIGNOFF IA-Announce
IEEE Information Assurance
Standards Workshop
December 4-5, 2003
Gaithersburg, Maryland
USA
Description
Understanding and meeting the
requirements presented by the complex set of existing information assurance
standards, law, and policy is a daunting challenge to everyone involved in
timely and secure delivery of information. To reduce this challenge, new
information assurance standards being developed by the IEEE will be crafted to
fit into this existing environment. The review of standards project selection
and strategy offered by this workshop supports this goal and provides a means
to identify unmet needs for new information standards.
This day-and-a-half workshop
therefore introduces current IEEE information assurance standards projects and
solicits volunteer participation in a consensus process to produce preeminent
international information standards. Projects introduced at this workshop
include those recently approved for work on both baseline operating system
security (BOSS™) and certification and accreditation (C&A) of information
systems, each project being initially based on NIST-developed drafts. In
addition, an ongoing project to develop a standard architecture for encrypted shared
storage media is reviewed. And projects slated to begin later this
year, dealing with security of peripherals and information assurance
terminology, are discussed.
Speakers from NIST include Dr.
Ron Ross, Dr. Stuart Katzke, and Mr. Gary Stoneburner. Mr. Clement Kent of
Kasten Chase will speak about encrypted storage media. To convey the special
needs of their communities, a few speaking opportunities will be filled by
representatives from the defense, education, healthcare, finance, and energy
sectors.
An evening reception will
precede the workshop, and the second day of the workshop will be used
primarily for breakout meetings on the BOSS™ and C&A projects, adjourning
by 2pm. A workshop report will be published by IEEE. A web page has been
established for this event at http://ieeeia.org/iasw/ where details of
the agenda, updated speaker list, registration, directions, and other
information will be found.
This workshop is jointly
sponsored by the IEEE Task Force on Information Assurance and the IEEE
Standards Association working with the IEEE Information Assurance Standards
Committee.
To help us properly size
resources for this event, please send mail to
standards-workshop@ieeeia.org
indicating your tentative interest in attending. No subject or content is
needed, and no obligation is created for anyone by this mail.
Jack
Cole, IASC Chair, jack.cole@ieee.org,
+1 (410) 278-9276