The OSSA is an alliance of security firms that support and promote security and IT convergence, and standards-making organizations that make this possible. These include SIA, ASIS, ONVIF, PSIA, IEEE, PCI and Government (FIPS, TWIC, ANSI).
The OSSA supports the adoption of standards-based languages and data formats.
The OSSA sponsors educational outreach programs that;
- Educate the security industry about challenges, standards and technologies that have emerged in the new network-centric, IP-based security world.
- Demonstrate the benefits and application of open-standards based security, surveillance and control system to the user and integrator communities.
OSSA members are committed to;
- Producing systems that are scalable, actionable and retro-fit friendly.
- “Open Standards" to ensure that security products from different manufacturers interoperate as one harmonious system.
- To build products from the ground up to be interoperable.
- To avoid proprietary implementation of open standards, since modifying standards make them proprietary.
- Supporting seamless integration using off-the-shelf methods and programming languages.
- Maximizing the use of existing IT/Security assets.
- Exploiting dynamic new technologies as they become available.
- Effectively managing IT/Security assets through their life cycle.
- Ensuring that system operators have the right information when they need it.
- Using technology to operate facilities more effectively.
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