Internet Security Alliance

ISAlliance is a cross sector, international trade association created by EIA and Carnegie Mellon University expressly to represent corporate users interests with respect to information security.  It has a footprint of several thousand members on 4 continents.
 

ISAlliance provides its membership with a combination of technical, legal, policy and business services designed to assist them in improving their corporate cyber security.  Among the high profile activities the ISAlliance is currently involved in are:

• developing a handbook for CFOs to address corporate cyber events from a financial perspective,
• developing a framework of standards and practices to secure the international IT supply chain,
• creating market incentives to facilitate increased investment in corporate information security,
• developing a 21st century policy platform for the next presidential Administration and
• Securing the VOIP (Voice over Internet protocol) platform.
   

Online Security

Cyber Security
Summary: Cyber-insurance is an insurance product used to protect businesses from Internet-based risks, and more generally from risks relating to information technology infrastructure and activities.

Developing market incentives
Summary: In the Internet Security Alliance testimony before the Homeland Security Committee on October 31 2007 we outlined a series of incentives which might be pursued by the government. In this paper we will lay out an approach to addressing the first issue, how to set the metrics for qualifying for the incentives.