Association of users of standards on information security of ABISS

The "Association of Users of Standards on Information Security" non-profit partnership (ABISS) is an infrastructure platform for formation of the clear and approved approaches among users of standards on information security of a financial segment.

As of January, 2021 ABISS integrates auditors and consultants for cybersecurity, credit and non-credit financial institutions, regulators and also the international organizations, training centers and other associations. The mission of Association consists in ensuring interaction of market participants concerning the cybersecurity standards of the financial industry.

As the chairman of ABISS Association since February, 2020 Anastasia Harybina acts.

History

2013

NP Community of Users of Standards on Information Security of ABISS joined PCI Security Standards Council (Council of PCI SSC) as the participating organization (PCI Participating Organization). Joint work of partnership and Council of PCI SSC is directed to increasing the level of security of the payment cards given in the industry thanks to development of such standards as the standard of data security of the industry of payment cards (PCI DSS), security requirements of transactions using the PIN code (PTS) and the standard of data security of payment applications (PA-DSS), reported CNews in ABISS.

2012

In June, 2012 the Keysystems company was included into NP ABISS as the organization auditor in the field of information security support for the Standard of the Bank of Russia. The accession to ABISS Non-profit Partnership will allow Keysystems company to render to the organizations of a banking system services in information security support.

In March, 2012 the company Softline also Inline Technologies became the full member of "Community of Users of Standards on Information Security of ABISS" non-profit partnership.

2011

On October 13, 2011 the companies of Peace sign and Kabest (Asteros group) were a part of founders of "Community of Users of Standards on Information Security of ABISS" non-profit partnership. The chief executive of PACIFICA – Pavel Geniyevsky is appointed the chairman of partnership.

"Members of NP ABISS are not only integrators, auditing and consulting companies, educational institutions, credit institutions, but also the companies regulators which are developers of requirements in information security field. Therefore our main objective – to build mechanisms of interaction and trust between concerned parties, to construct a control system and to increase service quality. Success of conceived will offer prospects of use of mechanisms of self-regulation, formation of standards and rules of business activity in the field of information security not only for credit institutions, but also the organizations of other sectors of economy", – Geniyevsky Pavel, the chairman of NP ABISS notes.

The "Community of Users of Standards on Information Security of ABISS" non-profit partnership (NP "ABISS) is created for the purpose of widespread introduction of uniform standards and rules of information security support in financial institutions and the participating organizations of a national payment system of the Russian Federation. According to information for 2011 partnership helps these organizations to facilitate passing of assessment procedure of compliance of cybersecurity to requirements of the regulating and control bodies.

The main difference of members of NP ABISS is that they have a certain trust of regulating authorities. Therefore customers who attract to conformity assessment of cybersecurity of the systems of participants of partnership receive a certain guarantor of quality before check of regulators.