Internet Security Research Group
The Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) is a public-benefit non-profit corporation based in California which focuses on Internet security. The group is known for hosting and running the Let's Encrypt service, which aims to make Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates available for free in an automated fashion. Josh Aas serves as the group's executive director.
Projects
ISRG has three project areas:
- Let's Encrypt, a certificate authority that provides free certificates, with components including the Automatic Certificate Management Environment protocol
- Prossimo, an initiative that supports memory safety projects including ntpd-rs, Rustls, and Rust for Linux
- Divvi Up, a telemetry service
Board members
The Internet Security Research Group has 10 board members as of June 2024[update].
- Josh Aas (Internet Security Research Group) — ISRG Executive Director
- J. Alex Halderman (University of Michigan)
- Vicky Chin (Mozilla)
- Aanchal Gupta (Independent)
- Jennifer Granick (ACLU)
- Pascal Jaillon (OVH)
- Richard Barnes (Cisco Systems)
- Christine Runnegar (Internet Society)
- Erica Portnoy (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
- David Nalley (Amazon)
