Stuart Corner
Monday, 30 June 2008 12:37
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Membership is open to others on three levels: founding, charter, and general. Founding and charter members must be nominated an existing founding or charter member and must be global vendors, manufacturers or providers of IT that "can effect changes necessary to protect the global IT security ecosystem" and that are publicly traded companies listed on a US or a foreign exchange with a global customer base.
General membership is open to similar global companies but they do not have to be publicly listed, or be nominated. However they must be approved by the board.
Formation of Icasi comes only a month after the creation of Impact: the International Multilateral Partnership against Cyberterrorism,
www.impact-alliance.org which held its inaugural World Cyber Security Summit (WCSS) in Kuala Lumpur, claimed to be the largest ministerial-level forum ever organised on cyber-terrorism and security.
Government ministers, industry leaders, technology luminaries and international cybersecurity experts from 27 countries were in attendance, including Australia, Canada, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and the United States.
The goal of the summit was to chart the future course for Impact. The organisation has been created with $US13m in seed funding from the Malaysian Government. Malaysian prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said that the level of interest shown in the summit was proof of the need for Impact.
Its formation has also been endorsed by the ITU. Secretary general Dr Hamadoun Touré, said: "impact promises to be a key partner in the implementation of our Global Cybersecurity Agenda, (GSA) forming a crucial, operational defence against all types of cyber threats." Impact has offered its secretariat as a home for the GSA including use of its training facilities, labs and Global response centre.
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