[VOIPSA Best Practices] Introducing the VOIPSA Best Practices section leaders... and still looking for one more...

[dan_york at Mitel.com]

Best Practices list,

It gives me great pleasure to say that we now have a great team of folks 
to help develop the different sections of the document. As noted on this 
page:

 
http://wiki.voipsa.org/tiki-index.php?page=Volunteer+Opportunities%2FTeam+Structure

our section leaders are:

1. Securing Voice and Media stream                      He Huang, Nortel, 
USA
2. Securing Call Control                                        Eric Chen, 
NTT, Japan
3. Securing Management Interfaces and APIs              not yet assigned
4. Securing PSTN Interfaces and Traditional Telephony Issues    Shawn Lund
5. Securing Servers and Operating Systems               Tom Cross, 
Techtionary.com, USA
6. Securing IP Endpoints (inc. softphones)              Nhut Nguyen, 
Samsung, USA
7. Securing the TCP/IP network                          Jerry Mangiarelli, 
TD Bank, Canada
8. Physical Security, including backups, power, etc.    Bill Ward, 
CyberDefenses?, USA 
9. Emerging Areas of Concern (SPIT, etc.)                       Saverio 
Niccolini, NEC, Germany

You'll notice that we're still missing a section leader for section 3, 
securing management interfaces and APIs.  I had that slot for Peter 
Kuebler, but he regretfully let me know that he had a window where he 
could have helped back in November, but is now moving into a new home in 
March.  Having done that myself about 1.5 years ago, I can totally 
understand how he's not going to be able to help much for the next bit. I 
do wish him all the best with the move and he is certainly welcome to help 
out as he can and when he can. (And he has said he will as soon as he 
can.)

So... we need one more volunteer.  As you'll note, the geographic 
distribution of leaders is just a wee bit skewed toward North America (I 
believe Shawn is in NA as well), so I'd love it if we had someone from 
outside NA to join Eric and Saverio in representing the 
non-NA-parts-of-the-world.  Anyone in Europe or Asia (or Africa?) 
interested? 

The leader can really be from anywhere, so interested parties in NA are 
also encouraged to send me an email.  I mention the regions only because 
as much as I do realize that almost all VoIP security practices do not 
have any geographic correlation, the PR/marketing side of my brain also 
realizes that we are producing a document for distribution in the "non-IP" 
world where there are indeed a great number of people who do care very 
much about things like borders which are in reality so meaningless to 
those of us in IP. 

Anyway, if you are interested, please read this message to understand what 
we are looking for in section leaders - and then let me know:

http://voipsa.org/pipermail/bestpractices_voipsa.org/2007-January/000035.html

Thank you,
Dan

-- 
Dan York, CISSP
Dir of IP Technology, Office of the CTO
Mitel Corp.     http://www.mitel.com
dan_york at mitel.com +1-613-592-2122
PGP key (F7E3C3B4) available for 
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