White Papers for International Standards Organization (ISO) 27002 (17799)

Enabling ISO17799 and BS7799 Compliance with Open Service Security Threat Manager

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The International Organization or standardization ISO 17799, derived from the British Standards Institute IS017799 standards, is an internationally recognized information security management standard first published n December 2000. This global, high level, conceptual standard covers wide-ranging aspects of information security, not just information systems security. It makes the important distinction that information itself is the asset to be protected.To successfully achieve information security according to the standard requires not only security technology, but also a combination of policies and procedures, ll f which are aimed at re-serving the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information assets. To consider security far outside the technology ealm s a key point, considering the results of one recent survey of CxO level managers. In this survey, conducted by KPMB LP, majority (559 percent) viewed security as surely a technology issue. In fact, is the ISO 17799 standard makes clear, security touches on nearly aspect of an organization.

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