From tomb at owasp.org Wed Jun 3 10:30:59 2009 From: tomb at owasp.org (Tom Brennan) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 10:30:59 -0400 Subject: [owasp-intrinsic-security] Global Industry Committee Message-ID: <84eded9c0906030730t44c27522k7bdfe27e46f90257@mail.gmail.com> Global Industry Committee and associated projects, we will be doing a OWASP news podcast that will focus on the purpose and accomplishments of Global Committee's thus far and wanted to invoke some actions, noodling (thanks James McGovern) and discussion. members please take a moment to check in with your owasp regions (global committees represent owasp globally) on our wiki page and update your progress if there are any new items that are in progress or on the list. https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Global_Industry_Committee#Work_in_Progress As a action item from the last OWASP board meeting, OWASP would like to continue to build out a "Industry Steering Group" for - the concept here is to recruit enterprise organizations and gather requirements from them and allow OWASP to be a voice for the them as a collective. Yes, we also want them to be a corporate supporter and with assistance from the Membership committee we have laid the ground work for this http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Membership + we can start with the existing "members" and get them involved. I also want to call your attention to the ISWG that has been active in this area: http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:Intrinsic_Security_Working_Group please take the time to review the progress and efforts of this project team and lets integrate and leverage this projects mission as well as the following (2) projects OWASP-PCI project http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_PCI_Project as well as the OWASP spending project that has gotten a lot of attention recently in the media http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Security_Spending_Benchmarks so we have plenty of efforts to speak of for additional and ongoing outreach. Podcast HQ = http://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Podcast#tab=Latest_Shows Thoughts, comments? You volunteerism is appreciated in advance. -- Tom Brennan OWASP Foundation Url: www.owasp.org Tel: 973-202-0122