By Ian Dobson & Jim Hietala, The Open Group
Ten years ago, the Jericho Forum set out on a mission to evangelise the issues, problems, solutions and provide thought-leadership around the emerging business and security issues of de-perimeterisation, with the aim of one day being able to declare “job-done”.
That day has now arrived. Today, de-perimeterisation is an established “fact” – touching not just information security but all areas of modern business, including the bring your own IT phenomenon (devices, IDs, services) as well as all forms of cloud computing. It’s widely understood and quoted by the entire industry. It has become part of today’s computing and security lexicon.
With our de-perimeterisation mission accomplished, the Jericho Forum has decided the time has come to “declare success”, celebrate it as a landmark victory in the evolution of information security, and sunset as a separate Forum in The Open Group.
Our “declare success and sunset” victory celebration on Monday 21st Oct 2013 at the Central Hall Westminster, London UK, was our valedictory announcement that the Jericho Forum will formally sunset on 1st Nov 2013. The event included many past leading Jericho Forum members attending as guests, with awards of commemorative plaques to those whose distinctive leadership steered the information security mind-set change success that the Jericho Forum has now achieved.
For those who missed the live-streamed event, you can watch it on the livestream recording at http://new.livestream.com/opengroup/Lon13
We are fortunate to be able to pass our Jericho Forum legacy of de-perimeterisation achievements and publications to the good care of The Open Group’s Security Forum, which has undertaken to maintain the Jericho Forum’s deliverables, protect it’s legacy from mis-representation, and perhaps adopt and evolve Jericho’s thought-leadership approach on future information security challenges.
Ian Dobson, Director Jericho Forum
Jim Hietala, VP Security
The Open Group
21st October 2013
Ian Dobson is the director of the Security Forum and the Jericho Forum for The Open Group, coordinating and facilitating the members to achieve their goals in our challenging information security world. In the Security Forum, his focus is on supporting development of open standards and guides on security architectures and management of risk and security, while in the Jericho Forum he works with members to anticipate the requirements for the security solutions we will need in future.
Jim Hietala, CISSP, GSEC, is the Vice President, Security for The Open Group, where he manages all IT security and risk management programs and standards activities. He participates in the SANS Analyst/Expert program and has also published numerous articles on information security, risk management, and compliance topics in publications including The ISSA Journal, Bank Accounting & Finance, Risk Factor, SC Magazine, and others.
