

Much of this work was transferred to the Cloud Security Alliance for use in its "guidance" document. The basic premise is that a collaborative approach is essential to gain most value from "the cloud". The next focus of the Jericho Forum was "Securely Collaborating in Clouds", which involves applying the COA concepts to the emerging Cloud Computing paradigm. While the Jericho Forum had its foundations in the UK, nearly all the initial members worked for corporates and had global responsibilities, and involvement grew to Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.Īfter the initial focus on defining the problem, de-perimeterisation, the Forum then moved onto focussing on defining the solution, which it delivered in the publication of the Collaboration Oriented Architecture (COA) paper and COA Framework paper. The day-to-day management was provided by the Open Group. In December 2008 this was relaxed, allowing either vendor or user members to be eligible for election. Originally, only user members were allowed to stand for election. The Jericho Forum consisted of "user members" and "vendor members".

One of the earlier outputs of the group is a position paper entitled the Jericho Forum Commandments which are a set of principles that describe how best to survive in a de-perimeterised world. They felt the need to create a forum to define and solve consistently such issues. It was created because the founding members claimed that no one else was appropriately discussing the problems surrounding de-perimeterisation. It declared success, and merged with The Open Group industry consortium's Security Forum in 2014. It was initiated by David Lacey from the Royal Mail, and grew out of a loose affiliation of interested corporate CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers), discussing the topic from the summer of 2003, after an initial meeting hosted by Cisco, but was officially founded in January 2004. The Jericho Forum was an international group working to define and promote de-perimeterisation.
