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With active participation from individuals and chapters all over the world, the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) is the largest international non-for-profit association specifically for information security professionals.

It provides educational forums, publications and peer interaction opportunities that enhance the knowledge, skill and professional growth of its members.

This is the website for the ISSA EMEA Organisation to support individual Chapters within the EMEA region. We deliver news, details of events, training and exclusive offers to our members in EMEA for Information Security.

PRESS RELEASE
LAUNCH OF RISE: AN INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE PLATFORM DEVOTED TO ETHICS OF BIOMETRICS AND SECURITY TECHNOLOGY

A new project to ensure an ongoing dialogue on security ethics

The European Commission has decided to fund an international dialogue platform devoted to the ethics
of biometrics and security technologies. A new project, RISE (Rising pan‐European and International
Awareness on Biometrics and Security Ethics), has been officially launched in March 2009 within the scope
of the Seventh Framework Programme (7FP), Science in Society, with the aim of setting up such a
platform and convening the third world conference on ethics and biometrics in China (4‐5 January 2010).

The Chinese conference will be prepared by an international meeting convened in Delhi (24‐25
September 2009).

RISE’s mission is to create an internationally recognized ethical framework to be used while planning and
managing security policies, notably biometrics. Ethical implications of biometric identification
technologies directly concern respect for body integrity and dignity, protection of weaker communities
and their privacy rights.

RISE will set up an international initiative to monitor ethical and policy issues raised by biometrics and
security technologies ‐ the project aims to involve key European and international actors in an ongoing,
policy‐related, non‐official, dialogue on privacy and ethics of biometrics and security technologies. RISE
will ensure continuity of the international conversation already instigated by two previous projects, BITE
(www.biteproject.org) and HIDE (www.hideproject.org) and by two international conferences on
biometrics organized by the European Commission (1st International Conference, Brussels Dec 2005) and
the US DHS Privacy Office (2nd International Conference, Washington DC Nov 2006).

The RISE consortium brings together 9 European and non‐European partners, located in 8 different
countries (5 EU Member States, US, China and India). Partners include 3 universities, 2 private research
centers, 2 stakeholder associations, 1 public research institution and 1 consultancy.

The RISE website will be available from May 2009 at the following link: www.riseproject.eu. In the
meantime, for more details on the project or to enlist on the RISE mailing list, please contact the project
coordinator, emilio.mordini@cssc.eu, or the project secretariat rise@cssc.eu

The full brochure can be downloaded from here.

ISSA Awards 2009
22nd April 2009

Our International President, Howard A. Schmidt offers his congratulations to our award winners and he looks forward to joining our winners and other ISSA members at the award ceremony. We extend our congratulations to the outstanding individuals, chapters and organization selected by their peers to receive the 2008 International Awards for their exceptional contributions to ISSA and the information security profession.

This year’s ISSA Awards Ceremony will be held on Wednesday, April 22 at 5:30 p.m., at the (ISC)2 Member Networking Reception at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, California, USA. We hope you will plan to join us if you are attending the conference. RSVP now - https://www.issa.org/Association/Award-Form.html

Hall of Fame
Mary Ann Davidson
Steve Hunt, Chicago Chapter
Lynn McNulty, Northern Virginia Chapter
George Proeller, Colorado Springs Chapter
Ron Ross
Roy Wilkinson, Metro Atlanta Chapter

Honor Roll
Bart Moerman, Brussels European Chapter
Elio Molteni, Italy Chapter
Allen Scalise, Rochester Chapter
Brian Schultz, Northern Virginia Chapter

Chapters of the Year
Fewer than 100 Members
Poland

100-200 Members
Capitol of Texas

200 or More Members
Colorado Springs
Northern Virginia

Chapter Communication Program of the Year
UK Chapter

Security Professional of the Year
Mark Johnson, Middle Tennessee Chapter

President’s Award for Public Service
Sharon Ehlers

Organization of the Year
MITRE Corporation