Memberships

Information Security Forum (ISF)

Founded in 1989, the Information Security Forum (ISF) is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that supplies authoritative opinion and guidance on all aspects of information security. By harnessing a combination of our world-renowned in-house expertise and the collective knowledge and experience of our 300 Members around the globe, the ISF delivers practical solutions to overcome wide-ranging security challenges impacting business information today.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)

Secunia's Chief Security Specialist, Carsten Eiram, is a member of the CVE Editorial Board. The Chief Security Specialist's role as a technical member of the Board is to participate in the creation, design, review, maintenance, and application of CVE. Current members of the CVE Editorial Board include - Microsoft, McAfee, and Ernst & Young.

CVE is a list of identifiers for vulnerabilities that aims to provide common names for publicly known problems. The goal of CVE is to make it easier to share data across separate vulnerability capabilities (tools, repositories, and services) with this "common enumeration."

Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST)

Secunia Research acts as an incident response team and is a member of FIRST. Secunia is also a frequent sponsor of the Annual FIRST conferences.

FIRST is a premier organisation and recognized global leader in incident response. Membership in FIRST enables incident response teams to more effectively respond to security incidents by providing access to best practices, tools, and trusted communication with member teams.

Online Trust Alliance (OTA)

The mission of OTA is to create a trusted global online ecosystem and foster the elimination of email and Internet fraud, abuse and cybercrime; thereby enhancing trust, confidence, and the protection of businesses and consumers.

In 2009, OTA invited Secunia to join its steering committee along with industry heavy weights such as - Bank of America, Goodmail, IronPort, and VeriSign. Secunia has played a key role in designing the security principles released by OTA. More specifically, Secunia formulated the following first step in the OTA's 13 step summary of online trust guidelines and principles.

EDUCAUSE

EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

Membership is open to institutions of higher education, corporations serving the higher education information technology market, and other related associations and organizations. Resources include professional development activities; print and electronic publications, including books, monographs, and the magazines EDUCAUSE Quarterly and EDUCAUSE Review; strategic policy advocacy; teaching and learning initiatives; applied research; special interest collaborative communities; awards for leadership and exemplary practices; and extensive online information services. The current membership comprises more than 2,200 colleges, universities, and educational organizations, including 250 corporations, with more than 17,000 active members.

The Open Group

The Open Group is a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, whose vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™ will enable access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability.

The Open Group works with customers, suppliers, consortia and other standard bodies to:

• Capture, understand and address current and emerging requirements, and establish policies and share best practices
• Facilitate interoperability, develop consensus, and evolve and integrate specifications and open source technologies
• Offer a comprehensive set of services to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia
• Operate the industry’s premier certification service

The Open Group is a consortium with a foundation in its members: a diverse group that spans all sectors of the IT community – IT customers, systems and solutions suppliers, tool vendors, integrators and consultants, as well as academia and researchers.

FS-ISAC

Secunia is an affiliate of Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) and has a history of helping global Financial Services institutions take pre-emptive action against vulnerabilities and potential security breaches.

Launched in 1999, FS-ISAC was established by the financial services sector in response to 1998's Presidential Directive 63. That directive - later updated by 2003's Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 - mandated that the public and private sectors share information about physical and cyber security threats and vulnerabilities to help protect the U.S. critical infrastructure.