ICASI to Conduct News Briefing Webcast Announcing Standardized Framework for Reporting IT System Vulnerabilities.

Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet to Detail Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework That Streamlines Security Information Exchange

WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- The Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI), a nonprofit association dedicated to enhancing global IT security by proactively driving excellence and innovation in security response, today announced it is holding an upcoming webcast where it will detail a standardized framework for reporting IT system vulnerabilities.

Who:		The Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet
What:		Is conducting a news briefing webcast to announce the publication of its Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework (CVRF)
When:		Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at 1 p.m. (Eastern)
Where:		Click here to register online
Why:		Current methods of vulnerability reporting such as embedding security metric and vulnerability data inside response reports are vendor-specific, non-standard and non-cooperative. Because each producer of vulnerability reports employs a unique document structure that does not facilitate automated processing, users must manually parse individual vulnerability reports to find information that is germane to their environments.
		In an effort to solve this problem, ICASI initiated the CVRF project. CVRF enables different stakeholders across different organizations to share critical security-related information in a single format speeding up information exchange and digestion.

About ICASI

The Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) provides a unique forum of trust through which global companies actively address complex, multi-product security threats to better protect the critical IT infrastructures that support the world's enterprises, governments and citizens. ICASI was founded by Cisco Systems, Intel Corporation, International Business Machines, Juniper Networks, Microsoft Corporation and Nokia. For more information, visit ICASI.org.