Online Trust Alliance merges with Internet Society
The Online Trust Alliance, which has for a dozen years brought together business leaders from cybersecurity and technology companies to develop technical standards and public audits designed to maximize consumer security and trust online, is merging with the much larger and older Internet Society, the organizations announced Wednesday. “We are always looking to see what we can do to amplify our efforts,” OTA President and Executive Director Craig Spiezle told CyberScoop, saying that merger discussions had begun after a chance meeting with Internet Society Chief Internet Technology Officer Olaf Kolkman in Austin last October. Neither organization was really looking for partnership at that time, he said, “One thing led to another.” The Internet Society was founded in 1992, by two men widely regarded as the fathers of the internet — Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn. It is one of the oldest parts of the so-called internet governance ecosystem — the hodgepodge […]
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