What’s the future of information security?

Today, Jan. 28, is Data Privacy Day around the world. While it’s meant to bring attention to personal privacy, it’s also a good time to think about organizational and global challenges relating to data security.

What is your organization’s primary cybersecurity challenge? Take our poll below, and read on to learn about some of The Open Group’s resources for security professionals.

The Open Group has several active working groups and forums dealing with various areas of information security. If your organization is in need of guidance or fresh thinking on information security challenges, we invite you to check out some of these security resources (all of which may be accessed at no charge):

  • The Open Group Jericho Forum®. Many useful guidance documents on topics including the Jericho Commandments (design principles), de-perimeterization, cloud security, secure collaboration, and identity management are available on The Open Group website.
  • Many of the Jericho Forum® members share their thoughts on a blog hosted by Computerworld UK.
  • The Open Group Security Forum: Access a series of documents on the topic of risk management published by the Security Forum over the past couple of years. These include the Risk Management Taxonomy Technical Standard, Requirements for Risk Assessment Methodologies, and the FAIR / ISO 27005 Cookbook. These and other useful publications may be accessed by searching for subject = security on our website’s publications page.

Cybersecurity will be a major topic at The Open Group Conference, San Diego, Feb. 7-11. Join us for plenary sessions on security, security-themed tracks, best practices, case studies and the future of information security, presented by preeminent thought leaders in the industry.