2019 Special Election Schedule
Monday 18 March
Board of Directors Nominations opened
Last day for member questions to the
Nominations closed 21:00 hrs, 9:00pm US EDT (UTC-4). Nominated Candidates required to confirm acceptance before this deadline.
Board of Directors Ballot opens
Elections closed 21:00 hrs, 9:00pm US EDT (UTC -4)
New Board member seated in teleconference
meeting 1pm EDT
2019 Annual Elections Schedule
BoD and TAB Nominations opened
Wednesday 15 May
BoD and TAB Ballots opened
Wednesday 19 June
Thursday 25 July
New Board and TAB seated
OASIS Board of Directors
Accepting Nominations
Early Nominations are Strongly Encouraged.
Candidate Review and Selection Period
Member Questions to BoD Candidates
The OASIS Board of Directors is comprised of executive-level officers, experienced in managing organizational growth, defining policies and dedicated to advancing open standards for interoperability. By serving on the OASIS Board, directors exercise a major impact on the strategic direction of the consortium. Recognized for their contributions by the entire standards community, the directors guide OASIS in its mission to drive the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for e-business.
The OASIS Board is comprised of 11 elected directors, each serving two-year terms. The terms are staggered annually to preserve management continuity. Elected directors serve as individuals; however, to be nominated for and serve on the Board of Directors, a person must be a member of the Corporation or an employee, designee or representative of a member of the Corporation. The Special
Election is for one seat that expires July 2020. The Annual Election is for five seats with full terms running through July 2021.
OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB)
The OASIS TAB identifies opportunities and areas for standardization within the Consortium that are beneficial for the entire community. TAB members advise the OASIS Board of Directors on the Consortium's technical agenda and on interoperability and alignment issues: they also encourage activities to address those issues. OASIS TAB members possess the technical understanding to articulate relationships between the wide range of current standards work and the strategic vision to map the future technical direction of the Consortium.
The TAB consists of five voting members, four of whom are elected by the OASIS membership for two-year terms that are staggered for continuity. In addition, one representative from the OASIS staff serves on the TAB. This year two seats is available for election.
Any OASIS member organization may nominate a candidate for the Board of Directors. Nominees are required to be members of OASIS. Individuals should be nominated for their personal qualifications and commitment, not solely for their company or organizational affiliation.
Nominations must be sent to nominations@oasis-open.org and be received during the nomination period.
Nominations must be made or approved by the Primary Contact of the member organization making the nomination. Members may identify their Primary Contact at http://www.oasis-open.org/kws/my_company
Nominees must email formal acceptance to nominations@oasis-open.org during the nomination period. Nominations not formally accepted by the nominee by the end of the nomination period will be considered withdrawn.
Each BoD Nominee's Acceptance Letter Should Include:
A short biography and an optional statement describing the nominee's interest in and qualifications for serving on the OASIS Board.
Platform information, identifying opinions on priorities and issues facing OASIS, ideas for technical activities, and suggestions for business development initiatives or strategic partnerships. This information will serve as the primary means for members to understand a candidate's vision for the future of the Consortium.
A statement that the nominee is prepared to commit and has support from thier management to devote approximately 10% of their time to OASIS Board activities and is able to travel to attend face-to-face meetings approximately three times annually at ther employer's or own expense. The first such meeting will be held in USA (Exact location TBD), where the newly elected Board members will be formally seated.
These acceptance documents are published on the BoD candidate profile page in the Members-Only section of the OASIS web site.
Early Nominations are Strongly Encouraged
No nomination information will be made publicly available until the opening of the ballot. Nominees are encouraged to submit their documentation as soon as possible, to ensure adequate time to review their candidate profile web pages, which cannot be edited after the ballot opens.
BoD profile pages on the Members-Only section of the OASIS web site will be created for all candidates. The pages will include each candidate's nomination acceptance letter. Once posted, the profile pages cannot be altered.
In accordance with the OASIS Bylaws, candidates may distribute material reasonably related to the election to all voting members via the mail alias voting@lists.oasis-open.org.
Members are encouraged to actively participate in the candidate selection process. Members can dialog on issues important to them in the candidate selection process by posting to and monitoring the oasis-member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org mail list. Members can also send a message of support to the voting representatives of all members via the voting@lists.oasis-open.org mail list. All OASIS members with an active user account can post messages to these mail lists. The public archives can be found at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/oasis-member-discuss and http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/voting/
Members of OASIS are encouraged to submit questions for all BoD candidates on issues regarding the management and direction of the Consortium. Questions may be sent to member-questions@oasis-open.org. Staff will compile and summarize the questions and provide an anonymous, representative sample to all BoD candidates. Candidates are strongly encouraged but not required to address each issue. Their responses must be sent with their answers to nominations@oasis-open.org for inclusion in their profile pages. See the Election Schedule for question submission and response deadlines.
Each OASIS Foundational Sponsor, Sponsor, and Contributor organization is eligible to vote via one ballot. In order to participate in the voting process, member organizations must be in good standing when the ballot opens.
Notification of the availability of online ballots is distributed via email to each organizational member's Primary Representative and/or designated Voting Representative. Ballots list candidates by name and organization.
Each OASIS Foundational Sponsor, Sponsor and Contributor member organization may submit one ballot with votes for up to the number of seats then contested for the Board of Directors. Completed ballots must be received by OASIS before the end of the balloting period. The balloting system confirms receipt of the ballot to the voting member. The balloting period ends at the time stated. If quorum is not reached, the balloting period will be extended by reasonable notice to all voting members.
The number of candidates, equal to the number of then contested seats, receiving the highest number of votes shall join the OASIS Board of Directors. In the case of a tie, a winner shall be selected among the tied candidates by a random process chosen and conducted by the election administrator, witnessed by one or more uninterested parties. The election results, including number of votes for each candidate and any tie resolution, shall be announced to the OASIS membership.
The Board Special Election candidate receiving the most votes will win the seat which expires July 2019.
Further details on the OASIS Board of Directors can be found in the OASIS Bylaws. Contact Member Services, at member-services@oasis-open.org, or +1 (781) 425-5073, if you have any questions regarding this process or if you require any other information.
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Cybersecurity is one of the greatest challenges our modern society faces and requires a coordinated approach to succeed. Under OASIS leadership, we see an opportunity to better organize the good guys to fight cybercriminals by sharing cyber threat intelligence data in an automated and efficient data standard.
Peter Allor
Senior Security Strategist
OASIS TC members act like extra QA resources for one another. We put our products together and shake out incompatibility issues. Finding those before we ship is invaluable.
One thing that makes OASIS stand out is its openness. It's not just that the standards are open and freely available in perpetuity, but also that the whole process is open.
As a Sponsor of the OASIS CTI Technical Committee, we are delighted to be at the forefront of advancing critically important standards like STIX, TAXII and CybOX. By creating protocols that address how to best model, analyze, and share cyber threat intelligence, we can provide greater support to overwhelmed security professionals.
John Bruce
Soltra is proud to be a member of the OASIS CTI Technical Committee. Our threat information sharing solution, Soltra Edge, was built leveraging STIX, TAXII, and Cybox – key standards within the industry. We look forward to contributing to CTI as we continue to establish and maintain open standards, while improving cyber security capabilities and reducing workload.
Aharon Chernin
Soltra, a DTCC and FS-ISAC Company
Open standards and community sharing are vital components of a successful and effective fight against cybercrime. Our goal is to make Threat Intelligence, from a variety of sources, timely and actionable.
Dorit Dor
VP, Products
Focusing on standardizing threat intelligence technologies to keep sensitive government and corporate information secure is paramount to the mission of OASIS and its members. At ViaSat, we take a comprehensive approach to cybersecurity, from identifying potential cyber and physical security vulnerabilities to designing and implementing a plan that leverages big data analytics, intuitive visualization and intelligent automation to keep pace with evolving threats no matter where data resides on the network or how it is accessed.
VP, Secure Network Systems
iSIGHT Partners, creator of the commercial cyber threat intelligence category, understands how security organizations can gain the advantage over adversaries by using threat intelligence across their security and risk management program. As an early contributor and enabler of STIX, we welcome the opportunity to join with OASIS to further develop CTI standards and accelerate the adoption of context rich threat intelligence.
VP Community
iSight Partners
At OASIS, you don't have to be a large vendor to influence work. Of all the standards bodies we've participated in, OASIS is the only one we recommend with no hesitation. It is a group that simply works.
Cryptsoft Pty Ltd
We are proud to support the work OASIS is doing to advance their cybersecurity specifications and promote information sharing, a critical factor in today's security posture. By sharing details about malicious incidents quickly, not only between the public and private sectors, but across industry lines within the private sector as well, we can work together to better defend ourselves and stay ahead of the hackers.
Paul Kurtz
TruSTAR Technology
STIX and TAXII in particular are important initiatives towards next generation threat intelligence. Using the same terms, data streams, and threat modeling methods will help researchers, vendors, and law enforcement alike share information back and forth to stay abreast or even ahead of threat actor groups. We are pleased to contribute to this and more through OASIS.
Derek Manky
Global Security Strategist
We have long been committed to any advances that can better enable the sharing of threat intelligence among security professionals. Until now, organizations have been hampered by a lack of common standards and the tendency for security information to be siloed. We strongly support this important endeavor and look forward to contributing to the standardization being led by OASIS.
Paul Martini
iboss Cybersecurity
NEC is very pleased to be part of the CTI Technical Committee and continues to drive CTI adoption with industry partnerships to benefit customers. NEC believes that threat intelligence standards are crucial for proactively countering the cyber threat. We are excited about the formation of CTI TC and support its efforts through its contributing to and promotion of this global standard.
Kozo Matsuo
General Manager, Cyber Security Strategy Division
We have been advocates of STIX, TAXII and CybOx for some time. OASIS as an international standards checkpoint will undoubtedly improve threat intelligence sharing amongst partners by facilitating the exchange of computer-readable threat information.
David Maxwell
Director of Threat Intelligence
eSentire
OASIS strikes the right balance between the amount of structure you need for real standards and the amount of flexibility you need for cutting-edge innovation.
Drummond Reed
XDI.org
Development of an industry-wide standards framework for cyber threat intelligence is crucial for the information security industry to be able to define and share threats. New Context is a proud sponsor of OASIS and believes strongly in open and transparent standards frameworks development. We look forward to collaborating on the next standards for STIX, CybOX and TAXII.
Daniel Riedel
New Context
I always encourage vendors with products related to access control, security, or cloud computing to join the appropriate OASIS Technical Committees and contribute to the standards work. We all benefit that way.
John Tolbert
VP, Cybersecurity
OASIS provides an auditable, transparent and justifiable process. It makes it easy for anyone to understand how the CAP-AU Profile was developed.
Greg Trott
CAP-AU Project Manager
Australia Attorney-General's Dept
OASIS members continue to amaze me by their deep knowledge of technology. I can ask a question on a TC call and get more valuable feedback in minutes than I would from spending days in a conference.
Pim van der Eijk
Sonnenglanz Consulting
OASIS gives me access to very high-level colleagues. Every TC meeting is like an intensive research seminar on a topic in our field.
Adam Wyner, Dr.