Working Groups at OSTERA
The work at OSTERA is organized into Working Groups and collections of Working Groups can be organized into Centers of Excellence. This is where innovation becomes a standard and focused collaboration drives global impact.
Working Groups are at the heart of the OSTERA process. They unite experts and organizations around shared goals and objectives, accelerating progress from idea to industry-ready standard to implementation and adoption. These communities focus on solving real-world challenges through open collaboration.
Current Working Groups
Cyber Risk Governance
Metrics (CRGM)
Purpose and Scope
The purpose of this working group is to create a standard framework that can enable the C-suite and their board to be more effective and efficient in understanding the actual state of cybersecurity within their organization through appropriate metrics and the business implications thereof.
Goals and Outcomes
This working group will focus on documenting the definitions for various classes of metrics as well as a base level inventory of enterprise Cyber Risk metrics, their corresponding implementation plans, and the levels of deployment that can be used to benchmark an organization and help an organization better understand and track the state of cybersecurity in their environment.
JSON Signature Scheme (JSS)
Purpose and Scope
The purpose of this working group is to work on solutions that enable JSON data, and JSON like data structures, to be digitally signed and encrypted.
Goals and Outcomes
This working group will primarily focus on maintaining two existing work items to ensure they meet the needs of the market and support modern cryptographic algorithms as they become available:
The JSON digital signature scheme (JSS)
The JSON canonicalization scheme (JCS)