The ISSA hopes to finish specific management guidelines and tactics for CIOs and CISOs (chief information security officers) that build on a set of pervasive principles. It will follow those with detailed principles that recommend activities for risk management and step-by-step instructions for IT staff.
In addition, ISSA will be working to bring the GAISP standards in line with ISO 17799 standards, which many companies are using to guide their security architectures, according to Rasmussen.
The GAISP project will be a massive undertaking, intended to provide security administrators with a single security framework that they can use to measure compliance with a wide range of international security standards and regulations, in addition to specific steps that can be followed to achieve and maintain compliance.
If successful, the GAISP project could help stem the confusion concerning security management, according to Rasmussen.
"Information security is becoming like OSHA," Rasmussen said, referring to the notoriously complicated rules of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. "It's a management nightmare. These are practical standards for building and managing information security."
RSA will be the "formal kickoff" of the project, according to Rasmussen.
"We want to communicate a message to let people know that we are working," he said.
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