The Open Security Exchange, a cross-industry consortium aimed at developing best practices, has picked up two new members--GE Infrastructure-Security for the consortium's board, and Deister Electronics as a general member.

PISCATAWAY, NJ – The Open Security Exchange (OSE), a cross-industry consortium dedicated to delivering best practices guidelines in the area of security management and vendor-neutral interoperability specifications for the integration of physical and cyber security systems, today announced two new members.

GE Infrastructure-Security joined the Open Security Exchange as a Board Member. “We are pleased to join and help lead an organization that will define and promote standards in our industry, which will improve the overall value and experience of security solutions for our customers,” said Jim Clark, GE Security’s Vice President, Global Marketing. “The recent organizational changes in the OSE, which introduce two membership levels, and guarantee an equal level of participation for all OSE members, ensure that the OSE will be a robust and authoritative forum for industry-wide initiatives.”

Deister Electronics joined the Open Security Exchange as a General Member. “As a leading developer and manufacturer of RFID technology and equipment, Deister is at the forefront of developing innovative OEM solutions to address the most demanding client requirements,” said Bill Nuffer President of Deister Electronics USA. “The Open Security Exchange provides a valuable means for security vendors to collaborate and provide pragmatic technical integration solutions. OSE is now a major influence on the growing Open Standards movement in the Security Industry—an effort that presages a flowering of innovation in not only security but in the tightly coupled markets of Information Technology (IT) and Supply Chain Management.”

The Open Security Exchange is a unique program designed to provide physical and cyber security vendors with a forum to allow the definition of vendor-neutral technical interoperability specifications and the promotion of these specifications to standard organizations. For example, The Open Security Exchange has issued the first of its kind technical specifications for the convergence of physical and cyber security systems. These specifications, named PHYSBITS, are publicly available and can be downloaded from the Open Security Exchange’s website at http://www.opensecurityexchange.org/resources.html.

Organizations who wish to join the Open Security Exchange can find membership information on the OSE website at http://www.opensecurityexchange.org/join.html or can request more information by sending an e-mail to info@opensecurityexchange.org

About Open Security Exchange
The Open Security Exchange, a program of IEEE-ISTO, was created to address today’s most significant security challenge — the lack of integration between various components of the security infrastructure. The Open Security Exchange is a cross-industry forum dedicated to delivering vendor-neutral interoperability specifications and best practices guidelines in the area of security management. This enables organizations to more efficiently mitigate risk, optimize their security postures and enforce privacy policies.

The Open Security Exchange combines the disparate technologies that form today’s security infrastructures, allowing for optimal security and operational efficiencies while respecting organization-specific operational requirements. Effective security management will result in: accurate detection of threats and attacks; consistent definition and enforcement of security policies; and enhanced organizational collaboration.

Current Board members of OSE are Computer Associates, CoreStreet, Fargo, Gemplus, HID Corp., Software House, Siemens Building Technologies, Siemens ICN, Sony Electronics, Inc., and VistaScape. Deister Electronics is a General member.
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