ISO 27000 Series Security Standards

The ISO 27000 series provides best practice recommendations on information security management, risks and controls within the context of an overall Information Security Management System (ISMS), similar in design to management systems for quality assurance (the ISO 9000 series) and environmental protection (the ISO 14000 series).

The series is deliberately broad in scope, covering more than just privacy, confidentiality and IT or technical security issues. It is applicable to organisations of all shapes and sizes. All organisations are encouraged to assess their information security risks, then implement appropriate information security controls according to their needs, using the guidance and suggestions where relevant.

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A.5 Security policy

A.5.1 Information security policy

Objective: To provide management direction and support for information security in accordance with business requirements and relevant laws and regulations.

A.6 Organization of information security

A.6.1 Internal organization

Objective: To manage information security within the organization.

A.6.2 External parties

Objective: To maintain the security of the organization’s information and information processing facilities that are accessed, processed, communicated to, or managed by external parties.

A.7 Asset management

A.7.1 Responsibility for assets

Objective: To achieve and maintain appropriate protection of organizational assets.

A.7.2 Information classification

Objective: To ensure that information receives an appropriate level of protection.

A.8 Human resources security

A.8.1 Prior to employment

Objective: To ensure that employees, contractors and third party users understand their responsibilities, and are suitable for the roles they are considered for, and to reduce the risk of theft, fraud or misuse of facilities.

A.8.2 During employment

Objective: To ensure that all employees, contractors and third party users are aware of information security threats and concerns, their responsibilities and liabilities, and are equipped to support organizational security policy in the course of their normal work, and to reduce the risk of human error.

A.8.3 Termination or change of employment

Objective: To ensure that employees, contractors and third party users exit an organization or change employment in an orderly manner.

A.9 Physical and environmental security

A.9.1 Secure areas

Objective: To prevent unauthorized physical access, damage and interference to the organization’s premises and information.

A.9.2 Equipment security

Objective: To prevent loss, damage, theft or compromise of assets and interruption to the organization’s activities.

A.10 Communications and operations management

A.10.1 Operational procedures and responsibilities

Objective: To ensure the correct and secure operation of information processing facilities.

A.10.2 Third party service delivery management

Objective: To implement and maintain the appropriate level of information security and service delivery in line with third party service delivery agreements.

A.10.3 System planning and acceptance

Objective: To minimize the risk of systems failures.

A.10.4 Protection against malicious and mobile code

Objective: To protect the integrity of software and information.

A.10.5 Back-up

Objective: To maintain the integrity and availability of information and information processing facilities.

A-10-6 Network security management

Objective: To ensure the protection of information in networks and the protection of the supporting infrastructure.

A.10.7 Media handling

Objective: To prevent unauthorized disclosure, modification, removal or destruction of assets, and interruption to business activities.

A.10.8 Exchange of information

Objective: To maintain the security of information and software exchanged within an organization and with any external entity.

A.10.9 Electronic commerce services

Objective: To ensure the security of electronic commerce services, and their secure use.

A.10.10 Monitoring

Objective: To detect unauthorized information processing activities.

A.11 Access control

A.11.1 Business requirement for access control

Objective: To control access to information.

A.11.2 User access management

Objective: To ensure authorized user access and to prevent unauthorized access to information systems.

A.11.3 User responsibilities

Objective: To prevent unauthorized user access, and compromise or theft of information and information processing facilities.

A.11.4 Network access control

Objective: To prevent unauthorized access to networked services.

A.11.5 Operating system access control

Objective: To prevent unauthorized access to operating systems.

A.11.6 Application and information access control

Objective: To prevent unauthorized access to information held in application systems.

A.11.7 Mobile computing and teleworking

Objective: To ensure information security when using mobile computing and teleworking facilities.

A.12 Information systems acquisition, development and maintenance

A.12.1 Security requirements of information systems

Objective: To ensure that security is an integral part of information systems.

A.12.2 Correct processing in applications

Objective: To prevent errors, loss, unauthorized modification or misuse of information in applications.

A.12.3 Cryptographic controls

Objective: To protect the confidentiality, authenticity or integrity of information by cryptographic means.

A.12.4 Security of system files

Objective: To ensure the security of system files.

A.12.5 Security in development and support processes

Objective: To maintain the security of application system software and information.

A.12.6 Technical Vulnerability Management

Objective: To reduce risks resulting from exploitation of published technical vulnerabilities.

A.13 Information security incident management

A.13.1 Reporting information security events and weaknesses

Objective: To ensure information security events and weaknesses associated with information systems are communicated in a manner allowing timely corrective action to be taken.

A.13.2 Management of information security incidents and improvements

Objective: To ensure a consistent and effective approach is applied to the management of information security incidents.

A.14 Business continuity management

A.14.1 Information security aspects of business continuity management

Objective: To counteract interruptions to business activities and to protect critical business processes from the effects of major failures of information systems or disasters and to ensure their timely resumption.

A.15 Compliance

A.15.1 Compliance with legal requirements

Objective: To avoid breaches of any law, statutory, regulatory or contractual obligations, and of any security requirements.

A.15.2 Compliance with security policies and standards, and technical compliance

Objective: To ensure compliance of systems with organizational security policies and standards.

A.15.3 Information systems audit considerations

Objective: To maximize the effectiveness of and to minimize interference to/from the information systems audit process. 

 

ISO/ IEC Standards

ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialised system for worldwide standardisation.

The full ISO standards need to be purchased individually and we would recommend ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security

ISO/IEC 17799 Renamed ISO/IEC 27002. 

It's only a number change but ISO/IEC 17799:2005 - the Code of Practice for Information Security - has been renamed ISO/IEC 27002:2005 to bring it in line with the ISO/IEC 27000 series of standards.

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ISO/IEC 27001:2005 - Information technology - Security techniques - Information security management systems - Requirements but it is commonly known as "ISO 27001".

ISO27001 is intended to be used in conjunction with ISO/IEC 27002, the Code of Practice for Information Security Management, which lists security control objectives and recommends a range of specific security controls.

ISO/IEC 27002 provides best practice recommendations on information security management for use by those who are responsible for initiating, implementing or maintaining Information Security Management Systems (ISMS).

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ISO27001/2 Gap Analysis Available

We can provide Gap Analysis to help your organisation understand what they need to do in order to achieve the standards they desire for the ISO27000 Series of Certifications.  We have already helped a number of Organisations that require ISO27001/2, PCI DSS and GCSx CoCo.  It's very important to understand where you may be falling short and what an auditor will be looking for when dealing with complaincy standards and our Gap Analysis can be a step in the right direction.  

ISO27001 Training

Our ISO training is offered via a business partner of Veridion, a recognised brand offering official RABQSA/IRCA accredited Information Security training for professionals.

Through our partnership with Veridion we offer a variety of courses including but not limited to:

ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Lead Auditor (5 days)

ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Lead Implementer (5 days)

ISO 20000 Lead Auditor

ISO 20000 Lead Implementer

These courses are officially accredited and include the official examination,  leading to professional certification.  Veridion are a leading organisation in this area and we are confident that the quality and content of these courses is amongst the very best available.

 

All of our courses are delivered by highly skilled professionals who have passed Veridion's rigorous training and competency verification to qualify as certified trainers. We only use certified trainers to teach our courses.

We also offer training courses in the areas of Business Continuity, Professional Certification(e.g. CISSP, CISM) and Risk Management.  We run both public courses from our training facilities and can also run onsite courses exclusive to your organisation regardless of location.  We operate worldwide and can offer training in a variety of languages.