By Ash Patel – Marketing Specialist, The Open Group
Recently we reached out to Joanne Woytek (Program Director for the NASA SEWP Program), to discuss her role as a Governing Customer Member Representative for The Open Group Governing Board.
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The Open Group Event Highlights – July 25-27, 2022 – Washington DC
In late July, The Open Group hosted an event bringing together speakers and practitioners from around the world to meet in Washington, DC at the historical Mayflower Hotel, and discuss some of today’s most vital topics in the area of security and resiliency.
With a focus on Zero Trust Architecture and Supply Chain Security, leaders from businesses including Microsoft, IBM, Micro Focus, and ServiceNow joined experts from public sector organizations like NIST and NASA, together with representatives from The Open Group itself, to explore how open standards are driving important developments and actionable insights in these important and developing topics.
A Shared Language for Supply Chain Security
In the world of technology, there are paradigms of language that arise organically and artificially over time. Necessity requires a shared mode of communication for ideas and as a result, descriptors, nouns, and technical designators are created and shared. The problem arises when certain words acquire a surfeit of meaning, so much so that they paradoxically become less meaningful. There are many examples of this but for our purposes, we’re going to look at “Supply Chain Security”.
The Open Group to Hold “Digital-First” Event Virtually July 20-23, 2020
The Open Group, the vendor-neutral technology standards consortium, is hosting its upcoming “Digital-First” event virtually on July 20 – 23, 2020. The Open Group Digital-First July 2020 will bring together vendors and end-user organizations from across the globe to explore how they can make the radical, fundamental change towards becoming a digital enterprise – a topic that has never been more pertinent as business and technology leaders face the challenge of surviving and thriving in the ‘new normal’.
Reference Architecture for Healthcare – Design Concepts
In this second article, I discuss key ideas and concepts underlying the design of a Reference Architecture for Health. Based upon the principles developed in the first article, these ideas and concepts describe what is needed. Together with the essential capabilities that we will introduce in a third article, they provide the input to how to build and deliver such a Reference Architecture. This document uses the following approach:
– From the large to the small: Start with the outer context, the overall Healthcare system, and refine into individual subject areas and building blocks
– Outside in: Start outside the organization, from the perspective of a customer, and design your organization around the needs of the customer
Enabling a Smarter DevOps Culture with the IT4IT™ Standard
The delivery of IT services to the business has changed significantly in recent times. Largely driven by the consumerization of IT, DevOps is being charged with linking development and operation teams to improve the quality and speed of delivering new offerings to consumers.This shift is being facilitated by the rapidly changing digital landscape and the increased demand for new products and services.
The Open Group to Hold Upcoming Event in Scottsdale
The Open Group, the vendor-neutral technology standards consortium, is hosting its upcoming event in Scottsdale, Arizona, January 28-31, 2019. The Open Group Scottsdale 2019 will bring together vendors and end user organizations to discuss ’Digital in Practice and the Supply Chain’. Hundreds of attendees are expected including, Enterprise Architects, engineers, technologists, and end-users representing many businesses and governments.
The Open Trusted Technology Provider™ Standard (O-TTPS) – Approved as ISO/IEC 20243:2015 and the O-TTPS Certification Program
By The Open Group
The increase of cybersecurity threats, along with the global nature of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), results in a threat landscape ripe for the introduction of tainted (e.g., malware-enabled or malware-capable) and counterfeit components into ICT products. This poses significant risk to customers in the operation of their business enterprises and our critical infrastructures.
The Open Trusted Technology Provider™ Standard (O-TTPS) Approved as ISO/IEC International Standard
The Open Trusted Technology Provider™ Standard (O-TTPS), a Standard from The Open Group for Product Integrity and Supply Chain Security, Approved as ISO/IEC International Standard
The Open Group Baltimore 2015 Highlights
By Loren K. Baynes, Director, Global Marketing Communications, The Open Group The Open Group Baltimore 2015, Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™, July 20-23, was held at
Securing Business Operations and Critical Infrastructure: Trusted Technology, Procurement Paradigms, Cyber Insurance
Following is the transcript of an Open Group discussion on ways to address supply chain risk in the information technology sector marketplace. Listen to the
How the Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard (O-TTPS) and Accreditation Will Help Lower Cyber Risk
By Andras Szakal, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM U.S. Federal Changing business dynamics and enabling technologies In 2008, IBM introduced the concept of
Accrediting the Global Supply Chain: A Conversation with O-TTPS Recognized Assessors Fiona Pattinson and Erin Connor
By The Open Group At the recent San Francisco 2014 conference, The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum (OTTF) announced the launch of the Open Trusted
New Accreditation Program – Raises the Bar for Securing Global Supply Chains
By Sally Long, Director of The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum (OTTF)™ In April 2013, The Open Group announced the release of the Open Trusted Technology
Developing standards to secure our global supply chain
By Sally Long, Director of The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum (OTTF)™ In a world where tainted and counterfeit products pose significant risks to organizations, we see
Quick Hit Thoughts from RSA Conference 2013
One of the responsibilities (and benefits) of my job is getting to go to great conferences like the RSA Security Conference which just wrapped last week. This year I was honored to be selected by the Program Committee to speak twice at the event. Both talks fit well to the Policy and Government track at the show.
#ogChat Summary – 2013 Security Priorities
Totaling 446 tweets, yesterday’s 2013 Security Priorities Tweet Jam (#ogChat) saw a lively discussion on the future of security in 2013 and became our most successful tweet jam to date. In case you missed the conversation, here’s a recap of yesterday’s #ogChat!
Operational Resilience through Managing External Dependencies
These days, organizations are rarely self-contained. The challenge here is how to manage the dependencies your operations have on factors that are outside your control. The Open Group’s Dependency Modeling (O-DM) standard specifies how to construct a dependency model to manage risk and build trust over organizational dependencies between enterprises – and between operational divisions within a large organization.
The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum is Leading the Way to Securing Global IT Supply Chains
An Open Group podcast examining the advancement of The Open Group Trusted Technology Forum (OTTF) to gain an update on the effort’s achievements, and to learn more about how technology suppliers and buyers can expect to benefit in advance of The Open Group conference in Washington, D.C.
The Increasing Importance of Cybersecurity: The Open Group Conference in Washington, D.C.
VP of Security Jim Hietala previews the upcoming cybersecurity sessions at The Open Group Conference in Washington, D.C.
