Devise Futures is member of CT 163 – Technical Committee 163 (Security Information Systems) – since March 10, 2016 and coordinates the Cryptography and security mechanisms and technologies Working Group.

CT 163 is the Portuguese liaison body to the ISO-IEC/JTC 1/SC 27 ( ) Technical Committee, and is organized into six working groups:

• WG 0 – Telco,
• WG 1 – Information security and privacy governance,
• WG 2 – Cryptography and security mechanisms and technologies,
• WG 3 – Security evaluation, testing and specification,
• WG 4 – Security services and controls,
• WG 5 – Privacy and identity management controls.

The scope of CT 163 is “The development of standards for the protection of information and ICT”. This includes generic methods, techniques and guidelines to address both security and privacy aspects, such as:

• Security requirements capture methodology;
• Management of information and ICT security; in particular information security management systems, security processes, security controls and services;
• Cryptographic and other security mechanisms, including but not limited to mechanisms for protecting the accountability, availability, integrity and confidentiality of information;
• Security management support documentation including terminology, guidelines as well as procedures for the registration of security components;
• Security aspects of identity management, biometrics and privacy;
• Conformance assessment, accreditation and auditing requirements in the area of information security management systems;
• Security evaluation criteria and methodology.

The member appointed by Devise Futures (José E. Pina Miranda) coordinates WG 2 – Cryptography and security mechanisms and technologies.