ISSA "1+1" Membership Drive
The ISSA International Board of Directors recently released the Organizational Priorities for 2006 and 2007. The ISSA Directors have made increasing world-wide paid membership to 12,000 members by December 31, 2006 and 16,000 members by December 31, 2007 their top priority. Non-US paid membership is to increase to 2500 members by June 30, 2006 and 4,000 members by December 31, 2007. ISSA needs your assistance to reach these goals so we may create a unified voice for security professionals around the world that can influence public opinion, government regulations, the media and other important audiences.
We are encouraging each chapter member to remain an active ISSA member and participate in growing our membership by recruit just one member a year for the next two years. We are calling this the ISSA “1+1” Membership Program.” The “1+1” program will supplement the current rewards program where each annual or two year renewing member gets an ISSA promotional item. The new “1+1” recruiting and retention incentive is an all expensed paid trip to an ISSA Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Executive Forum or an Information Security symposium/conference of your choice. The CISO Forums will be held March 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; August 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; September 2006 in San Francisco, California, USA; and November 2006 in Orlando, Florida, USA. Locations for the 2007 CISO Forums are under consideration and will include Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Specific trip incentives include:
- Round trip airfare
- Hotel accommodations
- Information Security Conference Fees
- 300 US Dollars for expenses
- Dinner with the ISSA Board of Directors (if attending a CISO Executive Forum)
- Picture and interview for the ISSA Journal
A pair of winners will be selected for every 1000 new paid General Memberships that are referred by a current ISSA General Member and who have completed a new ISSA General Membership application between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2007.
We seek your feedback both now and through the “1+1” Membership Drive so please send your comments and questions to vp_members@issa.org.
Sincerely,
Ernest E. (Ernie) Zernial, Jr., CISSP, CISM
Vice President of Membership
International Board of Directors
Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)