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ISO 17799: Pay Attention to This One

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Overview For years, organizations have been searching for an objective benchmark to measure the security of potential business partners and to distinguish the quality of their own services. While not perfect, ISO 17799 is emerging as the standard of choice because it overcomes many of the critical deficiencies of SAS 70. Specifically, it provides a comprehensive set of security-related topics and an objective means of measuring compliance. The certification mechanisms prescribed by the standard are largely unworkable and will not make economic sense for most organizations to pursue. Nevertheless, if compliance rather than certification is one's goal, ISO 17799 will serve as a sound security-baseline for many organizations.

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Publisher	SystemExperts	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2001
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Standards, Security Management

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