ISECOM is an open, collaborative, security research community established in January 2001. The goal is to provide practical security

Security

Security is the degree of protection against danger, damage, loss, and crime. Security as a form of protection are structures and processes that provide or improve security as a condition. The Institute for Security and Open Methodologies in the OSSTMM 3 defines security as "a form of protection...

 awareness, research, certification and business integrity. ISECOM provides certification, training support, and project support services for non-partisan and vendor-neutral funding of projects and infrastructure

Infrastructure

Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function...

 and assures that their training programs, standards, and best practices are truly neutral of national or commercial influence. ISECOM is chartered as a commercial-free and non-partisan organization in the USA

United States

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 and Spain

Spain

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. The ISECOM Board of Directors reflects 6 countries representing thousands of members and volunteers from around the world. In a world of increasing commercial misrepresentation in security, ISECOM enables logical and rational decision-making in security, integrity, privacy, and safety.

Projects

One of the most well-known projects of ISECOM is the OSSTMM, which is a peer-reviewed methodology for performing security tests and metrics. To assure qualified training and professional certification ISECOM provides certification

Certification

Certification refers to the confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization. This confirmation is often, but not always, provided by some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit...

 exams, such as OSSTMM Professional Security Tester (OPST) and OSSTMM Professional Security Analyst.