Emergent Chaos endorses Wim Remes for ISC(2) Board
Today, we are sticking our noses in a place about which we know fairly little: the ISC(2) elections. We’re endorsing a guy we don’t know, Wim Remes, to shake stuff up. Because, really, we ought to care about the biggest and oldest certification in security, but hey, we don’t. And really, that’s a bit of a problem. And it seems that Wim wants to make things better. And so we’re encouraging all four of our CISSP-holding readers to go vote for him, because we think that a whole lotta shaking going on would be, at worst, a not-bad thing.
How’s that for a heartfelt endorsement?
Ok, more seriously. ISC(2) offers up a certification in information security. There’s a big infosec community that doesn’t take that certification very seriously. That’s a problem that I’ve never had a motivation to try to solve, but Wim does, and I wish him the very best of luck. I think that that CISSP could do substantially better, and the first phase of that is to elect some outsiders to communicate a message that change is needed. What’s more, Wim is not a joke candidate, and he’s campaigned effectively for the role, getting lots of endorsements from people who are both worth listening to and who take this seriously enough that they wouldn’t open with a jokey lead.
And so Emergent Chaos is endorsing Wim, and hoping that some chaos and other worthwhile things start to emerge. You can read his statement on Jimmy Blake’s blog, and vote here.