IEEE Information Assurance Standards Overview

Standards Overview

The IEEE Information Assurance Standards Committee (IASC) is the principal component of this aspect of the IEEE IA activity.

Web Site: http://ieeeia.org/iasc

Products

Formal, Balloted Standards ("shall")
Recommended Practices ("should")
Guides ("may")
Published Working Group Notes
Lightweight Agreements (LWAs) at Workshops

Process

Adheres to ISO Imperative Principles:
Due Process, Openness, Consensus, Balance,
and Right of Appeal

Common Sense: Do No Harm, Keep It Simple

Follow Policy & Procedure (P&P)

Base Documents Serve Only as Starting Points
Final Standard, If One Results, May Not Resemble It At All

Current Projects:

Baseline Operating System Security (BOSSWG)
formerly COTS Security Protection Profile - Operating Systems

Certificate Issuing Management Components Working Group (CIMCWG)

Security in Storage Working Group (SISWG)

Future Projects:

Definition of Information Assurance
Development of Standard IA Terms

Collaborators:

IEEE Storage Systems Standards Committee
http://ieee-sssc.org

IEEE Software Engineering Standards Committee
http://standards.computer.org/sesc/