It’s another step along the convergence path. ASIS International has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Information Systems Security Association.ISSA serves information security and risk professionals with more than 138 chapters and members in 70 countries, ranging from the first-year systems administrator to the senior-most information security executive.ISSA is the second industry organization to align with ASIS in 2009.
The vision of this relationship is to increase collaboration in and among organizations that have access to the disciplines and thought leadership surrounding Enterprise Security Risk Management. Providing a foundation where the respective organizations and their members can actively collaborate in the development of education content through research, demonstrated best practices, principles and approaches involving ESRM is the immediate objective.