- Working Groups and Project Teams
Sub-groups of AMTSO members focused on specific topics or projects
AMTSO operates a number of working groups focusing on specific topics and projects. Working group participation is open to all member representatives, and each group operates to its own schedules and collaboration formats to suit the requirements of the project. Many also engage with non-members active in the field they focus on, often inviting guests to attend working group calls or meetings to add to the debate, or to review proposed papers and other outputs.
Below are the main working groups currently active, with some details of their purpose and member composition:
- Real Time Threat List (RTTL) Working Group
The RTTL group oversees AMTSO’s threat-intel and sample-sharing initiatives, RTTL and ThreatList. The group meets regularly to review the flow of data in and out of each system, work on expansions and improvements, and track new contributors and users.
- Sandbox Evaluation Working Group
The Sandbox Evaluation project aims to provide guidance, tools and structures to measure the efficacy of sandbox solutions in various use-cases. The group has produced a draft framework for sandbox evaluations, currently at preprint stage, and plans to continue working to develop further guidance on sample selection.
- VPN Testing Working Group
The VPN Testing Working Group is building guidelines for testing all aspects of VPN technologies, with an initial paper focused on core VPN features currently in the final stages of development. A planned follow-up will look at testing additional security features often included with VPN products.
- XDR Testing Working Group
The XDR Testing Working Group is tasked with developing criteria for testing XDR solutions, tracking what they include and what areas tests are covering.
- Coming soon
We have several new projects planned, which we expect to launch in the very near future:
- Testing Phishing Protection and Anti-scam Solutions
- Testing Data Protection Solutions (consumer and enterprise)
- Testing CDR (Content Disarm and Reconstruction) Solutions
Don’t see the project you’re looking for? If there’s something you think AMTSO should be working on, get in touch to let us know, or join our community to help steer a new project.
- Standing and On-hold Groups
These groups are either standing groups with more general remits which meet less regularly, or projects that are currently on hold or retired:
- Test Visibility Group
This group oversees AMTSO’s promotional and outreach activities, usually meeting ahead of events and meetings to plan content and steer speaker selection, and to map out social media and announcements.
- Knowledge Sharing Group
This group is charged with maintenance and updating of AMTSO’s library of guidelines and best-practice documents, as well as other ways of sharing AMTSO’s expert knowledge with the public and the wider security community.
- "New Frontiers" Group
Set up to investigate new areas for the organization to explore, this group’s main focus recently has been on ways to reach out to purchasers, implementers and users of security solutions, mainly in the enterprise space.
- IoT Working Group
This group developed AMTSO’s main guidance on testing IoT security solutions, and remains standing by to work an future IoT-related projects.
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Join AMTSO’s community of global experts and play your part in our mission to improve security through useful, fair and above all transparent testing.
- Have your say on where testing, and technology, are heading
- Connect with a worldwide group of peers with a shared interest in better cybersecurity
- Attend our meetings and events, and join our working groups to focus on the projects that matter most to you
