As the use of the non-industry-standard word cyber should indicate, the group seems primarily concerned with satisfying the recommendations of the US government’s National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.
The CSIA says it will help coordinate information sharing with the Department of Homeland Security, promote security awareness and education, advise on Federal technology procurement and promote better security as it relates to corporate governance.
The founding members of CSIA are: BindView, Check Point, CA, Entrust, ISS, NAI, NetScreen, RSA, Secure Computing, PGP Corp, Qualys and Symantec. The CEOs of each firm will sit on the group’s board of directors.
It’s at least the second such group to form saying it’s specifically going to address the challenges the US government laid out in the year-old Strategy and the National Cyber Security Summit, held last December.
In November, onetime White House advisor and current eBay chief security officer Howard Schmidt pulled together an invitation-only panel of ten CSOs from high-profile vendors and users and called it the Global CSO Council (though it’s currently US-only).
The Council, and now the CSIA, seeks to help fulfill the goals laid out in the part of the Strategy that relates to the corporate world, lest the US government step in with legislation that would force its hands.
This article is based on material originally published by ComputerWire
