ISSEA and /IIT

Security Strategist - Information & Infrastructure Technologies Inc., an EWA Company.

John joined /IIT in May 2001 and is responsible for /IITs Standards and Consortia activities and liaison. He develops strategies with regard to standards and consortia activities, and action plans to fulfil those strategies. John has over 35 years of experience in the security field in the military and commercial sectors. He has conduced research in many areas related to information technology security, with a particular focus on assurance, risk analysis, risk management, and security metrics. John was responsible for the conversion of the SSE-CMM into an ISO standard, 21827.

John is the President of ISSEA (the International Systems Security Engineering Association), and holds the following positions:

• Chairman of the Technical Committee on Information Technology,
• Head of the Canadian Delegation to the International Organization for Standardization Joint Technical Committee 1 (ISO/IEC JTC 1),
• Member, and Past Chairman of the Canadian Advisory Committee on Information technology Security,
• (ISSEA) Liaison Officer to ISO/IEC JTC 1, ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 27 and SC 7
• Member, Canadian National Council on ISO.