GÉANT Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are established under the auspices of GÉANT in order to create an open forum where experts from its community exchange information, knowledge, ideas and best practices about specific technical or other areas of business relevant to the research and education networking community.

The GÉANT SIG – Information Security Management is a forum for interchanging knowledge and experiences on information security management topics.


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The main aims of the SIG-ISM:

  • establish a community of security management professionals;
  • develop, maintain and promote a trust framework between NRENs based on international standards; 
  • promote the use of international security standards and share best practices for security management within NRENs; 
  • discuss and promote issues of information security management of particular interest to NRENs.

The disclosure of any information shared within the SIG follows the Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) (https://www.first.org/tlp/)

The achievements and KPIs for the 9th year (2024)

Planned achievementsKPIsDue Date
Maintain a trusted network for sharing best practices and information, increase NREN participation

2 workshops / year

April & June 2024


Initiate and strengthen collaboration with other security working groups

SIG-ISM/ WISE Meeting @ Security Days in Prague 

Participation @ TNC24 - 1 joint meeting/workshop with WISE

9-11 April 2024


10 June 2024

Actively participate at the GN5-2 Security work package, taking the advisory role

Support the Security Awareness group with the resources already collected

Actively promote and participate in CLAW2024 Crisis management event & Cybersecurity Month



June, October & Dec 2024




The first SIG-ISM Charter can be downloaded from here.

The former SIG-ISM pages can be found at https://wiki.geant.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=13500495


Facts
This is the 9th year of SIG-ISM
The charter of the SIG was approved in July 2015, but the activities of the group started before that. New charter of the SIG-ISM was approved in February 2017 by the GCC.
The SIG-ISM is jointly led by its Steering Committee
  • Ana Alves (GÉANT)
  • Rolf Sture Normann (SIKT) 
  • Urpo Kaila (CSC)
  • Michel Gerdes (DFN-CERT Services GmbH)
  • Cynthia Wagner (RESTENA)
  • Kathrin Schopen (JCS)
  • 1 Open spot! Do you want to join?
Steering Committee's page
Coordinator: Annette Aylward (GÉANT)
Next Events
SIG-ISM Virtual Meeting - 26th February 2025


Past events

SIG-ISM Autumn Meeting 2024

TNC24 Side Meeting - Security Community Meeting (SIG-ISM and WISE)
GÉANT Security Days 2024
SIG-ISM meeting May 2023

Fall Meeting 2022
SIG ISM/ WISE - Autumn 2021 Meeting
SIG-ISM / WISE online on 25, May, 2021
More can be found on the side menu.
Documents
SIG ISM white paper security management
SIG ISM white paper risk management 
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