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OVAL Board

Overview

The OVAL Board is an advisory body, which provides valuable input on OVAL to the Moderator (currently MITRE). While it is important to have organizational support for OVAL, it is the individuals who sit on the OVAL Board and their input and activity that truly make a difference. The Board’s primary responsibilities are to work with the Moderator and the Community to define OVAL, to provide input into OVAL’s strategic direction, and to advocate OVAL in the Community.

Each OVAL Board member is expected to meet the following requirements:

  • attend the quarterly board meetings (telephone calls)
  • provide input into OVAL’s strategic direction
  • actively follow and participate in both the discussion and developer email lists
  • provide expert advice about OVAL to the Community
  • look for opportunities to advocate OVAL in the Community

In addition to the above requirements, an OVAL Board member is expected to look for opportunities to include OVAL in his or her organization’s products.

In an effort to guard against organizational bias, a single organization may be represented by a maximum of two individuals with the expectation that one individual would be focused on strategic direction and the other individual would be focused more on technical decisions.

If you are interested in becoming an OVAL Board member email oval@mitre.org. Potential members should be participants in the Community before looking to join the OVAL Board. The OVAL Moderator has the final say regarding membership.

OVAL Board Members

Tool Vendors

Assuria Limited

Nick Connor

BigFix, Inc.

Jim Hansen

EMC Corporation

Dennis Moreau

eEye Digital Security

Morey Haber

Gideon Technologies, Inc.

Jonathan Frazier
Scott Armstrong

Harris Corporation

Bill Wall

Hewlett-Packard

Pai Peng

Lumension Security

Jon Lane

McAfee

Carl Banzhof
Kent Landfield

nCircle Network Security, Inc.

Jay Graver
Tim Keanini

NetClarity

Gary Miliefsky

NetIQ Corporation

Chan Yoon

Qualys, Inc.

Anton Chuvakin
Amol Sarwate

SecPod Technologies

Chandrashekhar B

ThreatGuard, Inc.

Robert Hollis
Randy Taylor

Operating System Vendors

Cisco Systems

William McVey

Debian

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino

Microsoft

Mark West

Red Hat

Mark Cox

Other Security Experts

Bastille Linux

Jay Beale

Center for Internet Security

Blake Frantz
Steven Piliero

Episteme

Michael Murray

Individual

Nils Puhlmann

Government

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Stephen Quinn
Dave Waltermire

National Security Agency (NSA)

Moderator

The MITRE Corporation

Upcoming OVAL Board Meetings

  • January 11, 2010
  • April 12, 2010


OVAL Board Meeting Minutes

Archives of Board meetings are available here for review and comment.

October 19, 2009 Teleconference PDF, 141k
July 13, 2009 Teleconference PDF, 137k
April 13, 2009 Teleconference PDF, 327k
January 12, 2009 Teleconference PDF, 300k
October 20, 2008 Teleconference PDF, 140k
July 14, 2008 Teleconference PDF, 90k
January 14, 2008 Teleconference
October 15, 2007 Teleconference
July 16, 2007 Teleconference
May 5, 2006 Teleconference
August 31, 2006 Teleconference
December 15, 2005 Teleconference
September 15, 2005 Teleconference
June 16, 2005 Teleconference
March 17, 2005 Teleconference
December 13, 2004 Teleconference
August 19, 2004 Teleconference
May 13, 2004 Teleconference
May 20, 2003 Teleconference

Page Last Updated: November 05, 2009

As the OVAL Moderator, The MITRE Corporation, created the OVAL Board, moderates Board discussions, and provides guidance throughout the process to ensure that OVAL serves the public interest.