ISACA/ITGI Participation with the International Organization for Standardization 

 
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The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries, one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system.

Howard Nicholson is the chairman of the ISACA/ITGI ISO Liaison Subcommittee (ILSC). ISACA/ITGI has Category C status with three sub-committees within ISO's Joint Technical committee 1 (JTC1):  Information technology.

The sub-committees are:

  • JTC1 WG6 - Develops guidance on Governance, including the Standard on the Governance of IT (ISO/IEC 38500:2008). ISACA/ITGI representatives are:
    • Maxwell J. Shanahan, CISA, FCPA, Max Shanahan & Assoc., Australia, member of ISACA Chapter 092 Canberra
    • Wim Van Grembergen, Ph.D., University of Antwerp, University of Antwerp Management School, and IT Alignment and Governance Research Institute (ITAG), Belgium, member of ISACA Chapter 143 Belgium
  • JTC1 SC7 - Develops guidance for Software and Systems Engineering:
    • Tony Noble, CISA, Viacom, US, member of ISACA Chapter 010 New York
    • Howard Nicholson, CISA, CGEIT, City of Salisbury, Australia, member of ISACA Chapter 068 Adelaide
  • JTC1 SC27 - Develops guidance for IT Security Techniques, including the 27000 series of Security Standards. ISACA/ITGI representatives are:
    • Hugh Penri-Williams, CISA, CISM, CIA, CSA, France, member of ISACA Chapter 075 Paris
    • Yonosuke Harada, CISA, CISM, CAIS, InfoCom Research Inc. and Osaka University, Japan, member of ISACA Chapter 089 Tokyo
    • Vernon Poole, CISM, CGEIT, Sapphire Technologies Ltd., UK, member of ISACA Chapter 111 Northern England
    • Andreas Teuscher, CISA, CGEIT, Sick AG, Germany, member of ISACA Chapter 104 Germany
    • Pierre Sasseville, CISA, CISM, Government of Quebec, Canada, member of ISACA Chapter 091 Quebec

ISO subject matter experts (SMEs) are invited to volunteer to participate on future ISACA/ITGI review teams for ISO exposure drafts. Interested SMEs should submit their contact information along with a brief outline of their qualifications as an SME and why they believe they can aid the process.

Interested in serving as an SME? Volunteers should e-mail their contact information and outline of their qualifications to standards@isaca.org re: ISO SME.