Date Sent: 07/17/2014
Date Completed: 07/24/2014

BALLOT:

* Item 1: Add Evani Prasad to the OVAL Board
* Item 2: Add Chandan M C to the OVAL Board
* Item 3: Add Adam Montville to the OVAL Board

OVERALL RESULTS:

Item 1 (Evani Prasad):
  Yes: 15
  No: 0
  
Item 2 (Chandan M C):
  Yes: 15
  No: 0
  
Item 3 (Adam Montville):
  Yes: 15
  No: 0
  
Total Organizations: 24
Quorum Required: 13
Total Vote: 15

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS:

Organization			Vote	#1		#2		#3	
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Assuria Limited				
BeyondTrust Inc.			 Y		Y		Y
IBM Corporation				 Y		Y		Y
INADEV Corporation			 Y		Y		Y
Lancope Inc.				 Y		Y		Y
jOVAL.org				 Y		Y		Y
McAfee Inc.				 Y		Y		Y
Modulo					 Y		Y		Y
Qualys Inc.				
RSA Security				
SecPod Technologies			
Symantec Corporation			 Y		Y		Y
ThreatGuard Inc.			 Y		Y		Y
Cisco Systems Inc.			 Y		Y		Y
Microsoft Corporation			
Red Hat Inc.				 Y		Y		Y
Center for Internet Security		 Y		Y		Y
DTCC					 Y		Y		Y
Rockport Systems			
Unified Compliance			
Individual				
NIST					
SPAWAR					Y		Y		Y
MITRE					Y		Y		Y
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Note: A blank space in a table row above indicates the organization did not vote.

BACKGROUND:

Evani Prasad, Chandan M C, and Adam Montville were all nominated to the OVAL Board by MITRE. Evani and Chandan 
went through the normal "interview" process explaining their responsibilities to the Board. Adam, having 
previously been on the OVAL Board, was only asked to provide a summary of his background and interests in OVAL. 
All three new members intend to focus on the technical tasks within the OVAL Board.


Based on the Evaluation Phase of the Adding New OVAL Board Members process, here is a quick summary for 
each prospect.

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Evani Prasad (HP): Evani Prasad is a Senior Engineering Manager on the Security and Compliance Service team at 
Hewlett Packard which provides vulnerability alerts and compliance policy updates for their Server Automation, 
Client Automation, and Network Automation products.  Evani brings more than twenty-eight years of 
experience serving in various engineering and engineering management positions at Hewlett Packard, 
PARSoft Systems, Tata Elxsi, OMC Computers, D.S.N. Murthy & Co., and Softline Computer Services.  During 
the call, Evani expressed interest in the technical tasks on the OVAL Board.
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Chandan M C (HP): Chandan is a software engineer and the technical lead of the Security and Compliance Service 
team at Hewlett Packard which provides vulnerability alerts and compliance policy updates for their Server 
Automation, Client Automation, and Network Automation products.  Chandan is responsible for ensuring the 
successful implementation of requirements into these products as well as the creation of content for these 
products including vulnerability and compliance content, supplemental content for Microsoft patches, and 
vulnerability reporting content.  Chandan brings more than nine years of experience in the IT industry and 
has held a variety of software engineering positions at Hewlett Packard and the Centre for Development of 
Advanced Computing.  Lastly, Chandan is an active contributor to the OVAL Repository.  During the call, 
Chandan expressed interest in the technical tasks on the OVAL Board.
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Adam Montville (Tripwire): Adam Montville is a Product Manager at Tripwire, where he has purview over Security 
Configuration Management products and content.  Adam brings more than fifteen years of information security 
experience to Tripwire, where he is an integral part of the effort to deliver automation content and supporting 
products to Tripwire customers.  Adam has become a recognized voice in the security automation community and is 
expanding his influence in this realm through his role as co-chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force's 
Security Automation and Continuous Monitoring Working Group (SACM).  At SACM, Adam is collaborating with the 
global security community to develop a roadmap for establishing and extending existing security automation 
specifications as international standards.  Adam began his career in the Information Security Laboratory of Oregon 
State University, his alma mater.  He has held a variety of technical and executive-level IT and security positions 
in both the public and private sectors, including the Department of Defense.  He presents to organizations around 
the world, and has received various honors and recognitions for his work, including a U.S. Patent in 2002.  Adam 
has authored numerous technical publications and is an avid blogger on information security topics, with particular 
interest in control effectiveness.  He is currently working on a book examining automation and paradigm change in 
the domain of operational risk management.  Adam is primarily interested in the technical tasks on the OVAL Board, 
but, is also interested in advocacy and liaison tasks as it pertains to furthering the capabilities OVAL provides 
and how we get the capabilities satisfactorily represented in the SACM working group.
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