About RISSPA
RISSPA (Russian Information Systems Security Professional Association) was founded in June 2006 under the patronage of (ISC)2.

Main objectives of RISSPA are development of Russian information security professional community, embracing experience and ideas sharing, spreading information security knowledge and increasing the level of professional skills for RISSPA members through webinars and offline seminars.

The Association provides the opportunity of participation in professional seminars for its members, for which CPE (Continued Professional Education Points) can be claimed, valuable to the holders of the (ISC)2 and other international organizations' certifications as confirmation of ongoing education.

RISSPA is a nonprofit Association and membership is free of charge.
 

St.-Petersburg IT Club «SPb CIO Club» is an Association of professionals who are responsible for the IT development of their organizations. The Club was established in October 2004. SPb CIO Club is a place where you can increase business contacts and solve commercial and business matters of different projects. The community consists of more than 300 CIOs.

The Club actively cooperates with major players in the IT market and multinational IT companies.  The «SPb CIO Club» platform serves to exchange views on current issues of IT use, to formulate common rules of interaction with large firms - consultants and developers, to establish an independent Advisory Centre for companies’ owners and managers.

The Club organizes several monthly and annual events such as the International Congress of CIOs "White Nights", Open Telecom Forum, Telecom Secure World  Conference etc.
The professional Ural ACS  IT Club is a non-profit professional organization, it brings together  CIOs of enterprises from different sectors since 1998.
Mission
Promoting personal and professional growth of the Club members, raising the profession prestige, expansion of IT professionals influence zones.

Objects

• To be independent counseling centre for IT professionals and managers of the Ural region enterprises to make better decisions in the sphere of information technologies (IT).
• To promote personal and professional growth of the Club members. Provide Club members with opportunities for effective communications. Create career growth opportunities for Club members.
• Create opportunities for interesting and healthy leisure time for Club members.
• To provide communications of Club members with professionals of other professions and business executives.  Promote development of the computer, software and information services markets in accordance with the modern world trends
• Create all conditions for the experience exchange between Club members what should be reflected in the enterprise management effectiveness improvement.
• To maintain Ural region’s IT civilized market  through the formation and expression of  independent IT professionals’ free opinion to protect  market from unfair IT solutions vendors .    To form and express opinions in mass media about the development trends in the computer, software and information services markets.