Cybersecurity Gateway

Study Group 17 is the lead study group on telecommunications security and identity management. It is responsible for studies relating to security, including cybersecurity, countering spam and identity management and handles security guidance and the coordination of security related work across all ITU-T study groups. Its role as the lead study group on work related to security was confirmed by the ITU-T World Telecommunication Standardization Assemblies (WTSA) in 2000, 2004 and 2008, in close collaboration with ISO/IEC, as a tripartite joint action.

WTSA-08 added to Study Group 17 the lead study group role for identity management. Study Group 17 has approved over one hundred Recommendations on security for communications, mainly in the X series of Recommendations, either by itself, or jointly with ISO/IEC or other relevant organizations. It regularly updates the manual on “Security in telecommunications and information technology” as an overview of security issues and the deployment of ITU-T Recommendations for secure telecommunications across all ITU-T Study Groups (the third manual was issued in August 2006, the fourth edition is scheduled for publication later in 2009).

Study Group 17 also electronically publishes a Security Compendium on its website containing a catalogue of approved ITU-T Recommendations related to security and presenting an extract of security definitions from ITU-T and other sources. The role of Study Group 17 was confirmed and reinforced by various Resolutions adopted at the WTSA-08 in Johannesburg:

• Resolution 50 on “Cybersecurity” guiding ITU-T work to build Recommendations sufficiently robust to prevent exploitation by malicious parties;
• Resolution 52 on “Countering and combating spam”, seeking to integrate the technical means to combat spam into the work of ITU-T study groups and SG 17 Recommendations.

Study Group 17 is also working on the implementation of WTSA-08 Resolution 58 on “Encourage the creation of national Computer Incident Response Teams, particularly for developing countries”.

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