Jack Cole Wins Standards Medallion
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 10 August, 2009 – John L. (Jack) Cole, former chair of the IEEE Computer Society Information Assurance Standards Committee (IASC) and a former area editor for Computer, has been awarded the 2009 Standards Medallion by the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA).
Cole served as IASC chair from 2004 through June 2009. IEEE-SA will present the Standards Medallion to him on 6 December at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, NJ as part of the SA Awards banquet and presentation ceremony.
Cole won the Hans Karlsson award in 2006 for “bringing together diverse interests with inspired leadership, dedication and vision in producing five storage system standards, and forming the first information assurance standards committee.” The award was established in 1992 in memory of Hans Karlsson, father of the IEEE 1301 family of standards.
Cole has been a Computer Society Senior Member and Golden Core Member since 2001. He edited Computer’s standards column from 2004-2005 and its security column from 2006-2008. He served as a judge for the 2006 IEEE Computer Society International Design Competition and 60th anniversary Computer History Competition. He is a member of the IEEE USA Committee on Communications and Information Policy and a chair of the IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Information Assurance.
The IASC develops standards jointly with other IEEE Computer Society standards committees, such as the Storage Systems Standards Committee and the Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee, in addition to collaborating with organizational units of regulatory bodies and industry consortia.
The IASC supports working groups on:
• Information system security assurance architecture
• Baseline operating system security
• Dynamically attached devices and device interfaces
• Hardcopy device and system security, and
• Security in storage.
Among the IASC’s recent activities is a revision to IEEE 1667, “Standard Protocol for Authentication in Host Attachments of Transient Storage Devices,” which was approved and published in 2007 and has been embraced by Microsoft. IEEE 2600.1, “Standard for a Protection Profile in Operational Environment A,” was approved by IEEE in May and published in June. In May, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology accepted the XTS-AES encryption algorithm defined by IEEE 1619 as an approved mode of operation for encryption of sensitive US government information.
About the IEEE Computer Society
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