Global Industry Committee

'''The Global Industry Committee was created during the OWASP EU Summit in Portugal. The primary purpose of the Global Industry Committee is to work with industry executives to gather requirements from industry, work with Membership, Projects and others.'''

Mission Statement
''To expand awareness of and promote the inclusion of software security best practices in Industry, Government, Academia and regulatory agencies and be a voice for industry. We will accomplish this through outreach; including presentations, development of position papers and collaborative efforts with other entities.'' Powerpoint of Accomplishments

Committee Plan
Step 1: Identify specific organizations worth working with to spread the OWASP gospel

Step 2: Prioritize the proposed liasons based on potential impact, and also realistic likelihood of the organization actively working with us

Step 3: Execute, leveraging global OWASP resources as much as possible to maximize impact

Step 4: Evaluate progress &amp; repeat Step 1-3

Committee Members
Committee Members:

The committee chair is Colin Watson. From 1st November 2010, Yiannis Pavlosoglou will take over this role.

Monthly Report
Date of last update: 31 August 2010 Updated by: CW

Accomplishments for this Month Planned for Next Month Issues/Risks/Challenges Financial costs to OWASP for calender year ending 31 Dec 2010 (2009)
 * Response to W3C Mobile Web Application Best Practices Working Draft
 * Writing article for BCS (in progress)
 * Continued work on Common Assurance Maturity Model in conjunction with OWASP Cloud 10 project (with ENISA, CSA, etc)
 * Meeting with UK Office of Fair Trading regarding e-consumer protection
 * Finish writing article for BCS
 * Follow up outreach to SPVA and USMMA
 * Election of new GIC chair
 * Response to UK Office of Fair Trading consultation
 * Outreach to UK ICO (in conjunction with UK chapters and Connections Committee)
 * Difficulty getting enough engagement with good contacts in all priority sectors
 * Budget: nil (nil)
 * Actual: nil (nil)
 * OWASP staff time: negligible (negligible)

Mailing List
Join our mailing list

Meetings
The next Global Industry Committee meeting will be:


 * TBC
 * Dial in number: +1 866 534 4754
 * Call code 192341

Minutes of previous meetings are:


 * 17 Aug 2010 (also MP3 recording of the call)
 * 18 May 2010
 * 05 Jan 2010 (also MP3 recording of the call)
 * 23 Jan 2009

Membership
Membership explains how to become an OWASP organization supporter or individual member. But you don't have to be an OWASP Member or Committee Member to contribute.

The current committee members joined for a 12 month term - see How to Join a Committee and Global Committee Pages. We would especially welcome new members who can widen our geographic coverage (e.g. Africa, Asia and South America) and who have time to contribute proactively.

Other ongoing initiatives

 * Special Interest Groups - Outreach to sector-specific critical infrastructures worldwide.
 * OWASP India Advisory Board - Regional panel contributing to the software outsourcing industry.
 * OWASP Citations - References to OWASP in official, or otherwise important, documents.

Work in Progress
The current activities being undertaken:

General Presentations and Reports
Summit 2009


 * Global Industry Committee Presentation [[Image:Owasp-summit2009-industry-committee.ppt]]

Summaries (for inclusion into other full OWASP presentations):


 * Sep 2009 [[Image:Owasp-industry-committee-summary-september-2009.ppt]]
 * Jul 2009 [[Image:Owasp-industry-committee-summary-july-2009.ppt]]
 * May 2009 [[Image:Owasp-industry-committee-summary-may-2009.ppt]]
 * Apr 2009 [[Image:Owasp-industry-committee-summary-april-2009.ppt]]
 * Mar 2009 [[Image:Owasp-industry-committee-summary-march-2009.ppt]]

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