Jane Ginn Receives Outstanding Contributor Award
During the 2020 OASIS Awards Ceremony, in the middle of the Covid19 Pandemic, the CTIN President received the prestigious Outstanding Contributor Award. The ceremony was held virtually, as was all business and life during that year. This is a short clip of the award ceremony with Dee Shur of the OASIS Staff presenting.
Jane Ginn Acceptance Speech
Transcript
From Dee Schur of the OASIS Open Staff: The Goodwill Ambassador for the Cyber Threat Intelligence Technical Committee, (CTI TC), Jane Ginn, has been a super staff resource and a 2020 recipient of this Distinguished Contributor Award.
Jane is the co-founder of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Network and the Secretary of the CTI TC and the Threat Actor Context (TAC TC). Jane has been an active member of the CTI TC since the beginning, over five years ago, which is really hard for me to believe.
She serves on the Board of Directors of the Cyber Resilience Institute. It’s equally difficult to overstate Jane’s commitment to the CTI TC. Jane has set the bar very high for her tireless devotion to the community.
From Trey Darley, the CTI TC Co-Chair: “It’s been my honor to have worked hand in hand with Jane Ginn since the inception of the CTI TC. Over the past years, I’ve been deeply impressed with Jane’s unflagging professionalism. It was with tremendous delight that I learned of Jane’s selection as a 2020 Distinguished Contributor.
Jane has earned this award at least several times over. As I pen these words, there’s a huge smile on my face at the thought that at long last, Jane is getting the recognition that she so deserves.”
Dee Schur: And from Rich Struse, an OASIS Board of Directors member and the CTI TC co-chair:
“Jane has been a stalwart supporter of the TC’s mission and has toiled in the shadows to ensure that the TC runs smoothly. We couldn’t have gotten to where we are without her. Jane is a bridge builder, an ambassador, and advocate for open collaboration in multiple venues within OASIS. Jane is often the unsung hero toiling behind the scenes to make sure that records are up to date, that queries are answered, and that agendas are populated.
Without Jane’s attention, so many things would simply grind to a halt, yet you’d never know it from speaking with her. Her humility and grace are her hallmarks, and for this we say thank you.
Congratulations, Jane.”
Dee Schur: Can you please say a few words?
Jane Ginn: Hi, that was very kind of Trey and Rich and others that have supported my nomination.
I want to thank all of you at OASIS for providing the infrastructure within which we are all operating. And I want to thank the co-chairs of the CTI TC that have really been leading the technical effort throughout the past five years.
When I came on as Secretary, I made it my mission to try to document the progress that we were making, moving from STIX 1.X to where we are today with STIX 2.1; moving rapidly toward a full committee specification. I have done the same thing as I’ve accepted the Secretary position with the Threat Actor Context TC, where I’m working with Ryan Hohimer and Vasileios Mavroeidis.
I am so thankful to be working with so many wonderful people within OASIS, and I so appreciate that what you have done for us is you’ve provided us rules of engagement and a code of conduct that allows us to reach consensus as we move toward these international standards, and as we move towards interoperability.
And I will continue to document what I’m seeing along the way.
Thank you again, and back over to you, Dee.
