Call for Submissions

The Open Group Blog is celebrating its second birthday this month! While several members and Open Group staff serve as regular contributors, we’d like to take this opportunity to invite our community members to share their thoughts and expertise on topics related to The Open Group’s areas of expertise as guest contributors. Continue reading

Survey: Data Breaches Driving Customers Away

Guest post by Mark Lobel According to our new Global State of Information Security Survey 2013, data breaches are driving customers away from businesses around the world. In conjunction with CIO Magazine and CSO Magazine, we recently surveyed 9,300 c-Suite executives, vice presidents and directors of IT & information security from 128 countries. 52% of executives confessed they have lost customers as a result of inadequate information security. I can’t think of a more compelling […]

Optimizing ISO/IEC 27001 Using O-ISM3

Read more about a recently published Open Group guide titled “Optimizing ISO/IEC 27001 using O-ISM3” that is relevant to organizations using ISO27001/27002 as their Information Security Management System (ISMS). Continue reading →

PODCAST: Standards effort points to automation via common markup language for improved IT compliance, security

Listen to our recorded podcast on the new Open Automated Compliance Expert Markup Language (O-ACEML) standard, or read the transcript. This podcast was recorded by Dana Gardner of Interarbor Solutions in conjunction with The Open Group Conference, Aust…