Internet Security Research Group
| Founded | May 2013 |
|---|---|
| Founders | Josh Aas, Eric Rescorla |
| Type | 501(c)(3) non-profit organization |
| Focus | Internet Security |
| Location |
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Area served | Global |
| Mission | "to reduce financial, technological, and education barriers to secure communication over the Internet."[1] |
| Website |
letsencrypt |
The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) is a California public-benefit corporation which focuses on Internet security. [2][3]
Let's Encrypt—its first major initiative—aims to make Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates available for free in an automated fashion.
Josh Aas, of Mozilla, serves as the group's executive director and board chair.[4][1] The board also contains individuals from Akamai, Cisco, University of Michigan, Mozilla, Stanford Law School, CoreOS, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.[1]
Board members
- Josh Aas (Mozilla Foundation) — ISRG Executive Director
- Stephen Ludin (Akamai Technologies)
- Dave Ward (Cisco Systems)
- J. Alex Halderman (University of Michigan)
- Andreas Gal (Independent)
- Jennifer Granick (Stanford Law School)
- Alex Polvi (CoreOS)
- Peter Eckersley (Electronic Frontier Foundation) — Observer
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