ComputerWorld Australia: OASIS to Develop Common Security Language

“A new committee at the Organization for the Advancement of
Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is laying the groundwork
for a new classification system to describe Web security
vulnerabilities.

“The OASIS Web Application Security (WAS) Technical Committee
will be responsible for developing an XML (Extensible Markup
Language) schema that describes Web security conditions and
provides guidelines for classifying and rating the risk level of
application vulnerabilities, according to a statement released by
OASIS on Wednesday.

“The new committee is made up of representatives from a number
of companies in the security space including Netcontinuum, Qualys,
Sanctum and SPI Dynamics…”

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