8th Regional Asia Information Security Exchange (RAISE) Forum Meeting

Together with ISS, the Security and Privacy Standards Technical Committee of ITSC is hosting the 8th RAISE Forum Meeting on 8-9 March. Established in 2004, RAISE Forum is the Asian standardisation community's focal point on information security issues. It does this by

- Providing a platform for sharing of knowledge, and exchange ideas and dialogues on information security strategy, policies, and practices, including but not limited to their development, implementation, changes, and any lessons learnt that could be beneficial to the members of the Forum;

- Providing a platform for sharing of knowledge, exchange of ideas and dialogues on information security standards related issues, challenges, and directions, in particular, relating to the adoption, deployment, and implementation of ICT related standards in the region;

- Ensuring that the security-related standardization activities in Asia adequately reflect the requirements of the market constituents at a strategic level;

- Providing a mechanism that could be used to follow-up on Asia policy requirements on Information Security standards issues;

- Providing effective co-ordination between organizations of relevant standardization work programs and their execution;

- Ensuring Asia requirements for standards and standards work in this area are correctly interfaced with international standards activity, and standards activity in other regions, to avoid conflict or duplication of effort; and

- Acting as a strategic communication interface between relevant standards authorities and agencies on international standardization related topics.