The 2011 (ISC)2 Security Congress

The Information Security Associations and Organizations listed in this section represent the vast array of professional
groups that support the international information security community. These associations and organizations offer
information security education, opportunities for networking, reference materials, as well as periodic meetings and
publications. Many are membership organizations that provide access to special events, research and other resources
for information security practitioners.
Visit http://resourceguide.isc2.org for additional resource Spotlights from (ISC) 2 .
Online Resources
A host of helpful resources listed by region and category. Please note
that most sites offer English content in whole or in part.
Organizational Security
Resources Online
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
Alta Associates, Inc., Executive
Recruitment
www.altaassociates.com
Brazilian Computer Emergency
Response Team (NBSO)
www.nbso.nic.br/index-en.html
Brazilian Computer Security and Incident
Response Teams (CSIRTs)
www.nbso.nic.br/contact-br.html
Brazilian Honeypots Alliance
Distributed Honeypots Project
www.honeypots-alliance.org.br
Business Software Alliance
www.bsa.org
Center for Internet Security
www.cisecurity.org
Common Criteria Portal
www.commoncriteriaportal.org
Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures (CVE)
http://cve.mitre.org
CyberLawEnforcement.org
www.wiredcops.org
Electronic Privacy Information Center
www.epic.org
Executive Women’s Forum
www.infosecuritywomen.com
Forum of Incident Response and
Security Teams (FIRST)
www.fi rst.org
Grupo de Trabalho em SeguranÁa
(GTS) de Redes
(Network Security Working Group)
http://gts.nic.br
High-Tech Crime Network
www.htcn.org
The Honeynet.BR Project
www.honeynet.org.br
IEEE Computer Society’s Technical
Committee on Security and Privacy
www.ieee-security.org
Information Assurance Technical
Framework Forum (IATFF)
http://www.javvin.com/networksecurity/
IATTF.html
Information Security Forum
www.securityforum.org
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Spotlight on 2011
Professional Associations and Organizations
ISACA
www.isaca.org
Information Systems Security
Association (ISSA)
www.issa.org
Information Technology Association of
America, Information Security (ITAA)
www.itaa.org
InfoSecurity Task Force
www.istf.com.br
Insecure.org
www.insecure.org
The International Association for
Cryptologic Research (IACR)
www.iacr.org
(ISC) 2
www.isc2.org
The Internet Engineering Task Force
www.ietf.org
Internet Storm Center, The SANS Institute
http://isc.sans.edu
Multi-State Information Sharing and
Analysis Center (MS-ISAC)
www.msisac.org
Network Information Center (NIC)
Brazil Security Office-Security Related
Links
www.nbso.nic.br/links
Network Reliability and Interoperability
Council
www.nric.org
OASIS
www.oasis-open.org
Organisation for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD)
Guidelines for Security of Information
Systems and Networks
www.oecd.org
Open Vulnerability Assessment Language
(OVAL)
http://oval.mitre.org
SANS Glossary of Terms Used in Security
and Intrusion Detection
www.sans.org/resources/glossary.php
The SANS Institute
www.sans.org
TechTarget Security Glossary of Terms
TechWeb Tech Encyclopedia
www.techweb.com/encyclopedia
World Wide Web Consortium,
W3C Security Resources
www.w3.org/Security
ASIA-PACIFIC
Asia PKI Consortium
http://www.apkic.org
Center for Information on Security Trade
Control, Japan
www.cistec.or.jp
China PKI Forum
Conformity Assessment Scheme
for Information Security Management
Systems (ISMS)
www.isms.jipdec.jp/en
CSEC: Computer Security Group
Information Processing Society
of Japan (IPSJ)
www.sdl.hitachi.co.jp/csec/en
Electronics and Telecommunications
Research Institute
Hong Kong PKI Forum (HKPKIF)
www.hkpkiforum.org.hk
Information and Communication Security
(Taiwan)
http://ics.stpi.org.tw
Information Processing Society of Japan
Information Technology Standard Commission
of Japan (ITSCJ)
www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/eg
The Institute of Electronics, Information
and Communication Engineers
www.ieice.org/eng
Internet Association Japan
www.iajapan.org
National Cyber Security Awareness
Month (NCSA)
www.staysafeonline.info
ISEC Security Center, Information Technology
Promotion Agency (IPA), Japan
www.ipa.go.jp/security/jisec/jisec_e/
index.html
Japan Information Processing Development
Corporation
www.jipdec.jp/eng
Japan Information Technology
Services Industry Association
www.jisa.or.jp/security
Japan Electronics and Information
Technology Industries Association
Information Technology Security Center
http://www.jeita.or.jp/english
Korea Early Warning Information
Security (EWIS) Forum
Korea Institute of Science and
Technology Information
www.kisti.re.kr