We just completed an awesome conference in Taipei, so I posted some Comments on Proxy Caches and Web Application Security (OWASP Taipei) on my blog.
Like many of you, we are members of multiple security-related organizations including non-profit, government, military, educational and commercial organizations. I happen to be both an (ISC)² member as well as chapter leader for (the new chapter) OWASP Thailand. Many (ISC)² members serve on myriad IT-security boards as directors and advisors. In addition, various organizations support and sponsor each other; for example, (ISC)² is an OWASP sponsor.
As professionals, it is our responsibility and ethic to positively and proactively support our profession, including other IT-security related organizations. Increasingly, cybersecurity is becoming one of the most challenging global problems we face. Web servers and transactions know no boundaries.
Because of this, our professional responsibility, indeed the core fabric of our ethic, is to offer support and foster cooperation between and across security organizations. Cross organizational collaboration is very important. The only way we can hope to secure the very vulnerable and fragile cyberworld we have created is by the global cooperation of security related organizations and experts.
