TMN security management standards in North America

Abstract

This article provides an overview of some current North American security management standards, as well as some related work in progress. Its purpose is to promote harmonization of security management (SM) standards from various organizations through information sharing. It reports on the work of the T1M1.5 security management subworking group which was chartered by the Standards Committee T1-Telecommunications (accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)).