The news about breaches and embedded malware is incessant. How is it that major supply chain software, for just one example, can be so badly compromised?
What can be done about it?
The challenges we face with corrupted software, as well as other digital age challenges, resemble challenges that were solved in the physical world through the application of the strong personal accountability associated with professional licensing.
Think about accountability for things or services in the physical world: A professionally licensed, expertly qualified individual puts their reputation on the line by signing and taking legal responsibility for the integrity of something. Professional licensing has been around for centuries as a way to bring personal accountability to the professional practice, from bridge designers to doctors to architects.
The Osmio Professional Licensing Initiative is just getting started. By joining the Initiative at this early stage, you and your organization can have a special role in shaping the organization as it grows.
Your Membership helps to ensure the success of the Initiative, and by extension ensure the viability of your the software and other important digital tools that your organization depends upon. By contributing to its finances, its governance, standards, and in spreading the word, you are helping to make reliable software a ubiquitous reality.
Join other management leaders in making the online world reliable and sound.
Charter Memberships in the Professional Licensing Initiative
| Organization Size | Annual Charter Member Fee |
|---|---|
| 5000+ FTE Employees | 10,000 |
| 1000-4999 | 5,000 |
| 250-999 | 2,500 |
| 50-249 | 1,000 |
| 2-49 | 500 |
| Individual | Contribution of time only |
| Nonprofit | 50% reduction in fee |
Use of Proceeds
A great deal of work will be required to make the Osmio Professional Licensing Initiative a functioning reality, protecting digital facilities around the world from the consequences of lack of accountability. Dialogs with professional liability insurers will need to be established; development of qualification and testing standards… training on the application of their established expertise through digital signatures...
Advantages of Charter Membership
As a Charter Member, you’ll be included in the Charter Member’s Advisory Council, giving you the opportunity to influence the way the Initiative develops in coming years..
Essence of the Initiative
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Learn MoreThe Licenses
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01 Professional Licensing Initiative website
A code auditor attests to the integrity of a piece of software. Much of the software you use is digitally signed, meaning not a single bit has been changed since it was signed. But who signed it? In most cases it’s signed using a private key that gets passed around the development department of some big software company. Not only is there no personal liability, there’s ample opportunity to sign software that spies on you or does other things that are against your interests. And let’s face it, big software companies put things in their codethat no one employee would ever want to be individually held accountable for. BUT ... if software is digitally signed by a licensed Code Auditor, you know there’s nothing in it that a responsible, identifiable human being does not take personal and legal accountability for. If someone has tampered with it, you’ll be informed that the signature doesn’t check out.
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02 BOOT PROCESSS SIGNING OFFICER
A specialty in the field of code audit is the BOOT PROCESS SIGNING OFFICER, who takes responsibility for the integrity of the firmware in the UEFI or BIOS chip that boots up your employee’s computer, assuring there are no vulnerabilities that would allow an attack such as the recent TrickBot malware.
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03 BLOCKCHAIN OFFICER
This one protects against corruption of software and hardware in IoT devices. IAny device putting packet vehicles onto the Information Highway should have its packet streams digitally signed by the equivalent of an officer of a vehicle fleet. So if you manufacture webcams, their packet streams must be digitally signed by your IoT Device Engineer, who assumes personal professional liability for whatever those devices do. Before he approves a new model webcam, you can bet he or she is going to be absolutely sure there's nothing in it that could participate as a bot in a DDOS attack, spy on its owner, or carry out other mischief.
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04IoT Device Engineer
Did you know that existing blockchain architectures are vulnerable to takeover by a coordinated gang effort to control the nodes? Then, anything you use that blockchain for can be manipulated by the gang. And if that happens, who is accountable? The Blockchain Officer professional license addresses this problem. Behind each node is a Blockchain Officer who publicly takes personal responsibility for the actions of that node.
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05SIGNING OFFICER
The Signing Officer protects your organization from, for instance, hacked content in its website. A web page signed by the signing officer of the organization assures the visitor – and you! - that nothing has been altered since it was signed.
As you may know from our other videos, a critical feature of the PKIDR infrastructure is ACCOUNTABLE ANONYMITY of individuals. A professional license is different – it’s a special derivative of the professional license holder’s identity certificate. Unlike the identity certificate that it’s bound to the professional license digital certificate makes its holder’s identity quite public. A licensed professional is trained, licensed, and paid well to put their good name and reputation on the line to vouch for something.
You may be wondering why a professional license holder would assume liability for what they sign. The reason they would do that is the same reason an architect takes professional responsibility for the habitability of a building: She gets paid well for accepting that responsibility. Licensed professionals are truly gatekeepers to the market And the assurance they provide to both companies and their customers make their services well worth the price.
And why should WE trust a signer to execute that duty responsibly and in good faith? Because her professional license is backed by DULY CONSTITUTED PUBLIC AUTHORITY – and because that license, her reputation, and her livelihood are on the line with every signature.
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