CCITT Security Standards

CCITT and ISO have been pursuing several joint security projects. Namely,

• SG VII Q18 - Message Handling Systems

  This committee has already produced Recommendations X.400-X.409, Message Handling Systems, that also address the security requirements of such systems (most notably X.400, MHS: System and Service Overview, and X.402, MHS: Overall Architecture, that correspond to ISO 10021-1 and to ISO 10021-2 respectively).

• SG VII Q19 - Framework for Support of Distributed Applications

  This group is working jointly with SC21 on the following projects:

  1. The OSI Security Architecture (ISO 7498-2),
  2. The OSI Security frameworks,
  3. The Upper Layer Security model, and
  4. A Security model for distributed Applications.
• SG VII Q20 - Directory Systems This group has already finished an authentication framework (for the OSI Directory) and is currently working on access control for the OSI Directory.

• SG VIII Q28 - Security in Telematic Services

  This committee is currently preparing a Security Framework for Telematic Services.