November 15, 2004—The Open Security Exchange (OSE) announces two new members: GE Infrastructure-Security and Deister Electronics. OSE is a cross-industry consortium dedicated to delivering best practices guidelines in the area of security management and vendor-neutral interoperability specifications for the integration of physical and cyber security systems.
GE Infrastructure-Security joins OSE as a Board Member. Jim Clark, GE Security’s Vice President, Global Marketing, says “The recent organizational changes in the OSE, which introduce two membership levels, and guarantee an equal level of participation for all OSE members, ensure that the OSE will be a robust and authoritative forum for industry-wide initiatives.
Deister Electronics joins the OSE as a General Member. “As a leading developer and manufacturer of RFID technology and equipment, Deister is at the forefront of developing innovative OEM solutions to address the most demanding client requirements,” states Bill Nuffer, President of Deister Electronics USA. “The Open Security Exchange provides a valuable means for security vendors to collaborate and provide pragmatic technical integration solutions. OSE,” he continues, “is now a major influence on the growing Open Standards movement in the Security Industryan effort that presages a flowing of innovation in not only security, but also in the tightly coupled markets of Information Technology and Supply Chair Management.”
OSE is considered a unique program designed to provide physical and cyber security vendors with a forum to allow the definition of vendor-neutral technical interoperability specifications and the promotion of these specifications to standard organizations. For example, OSE has issued the first of its kind technical specifications for the convergence of physical and cyber security systems. These specifications, named PHYSBIT, are publicly available and can be downloaded from the Open Security Exchange Web site.
