ISO 27001 Archive
I came across an interesting post on Ireland’s Security Watch blog making the topical connection between bird flu scares and business continuity planning. It rightly points out that a disaster can strike from unlikely sources when you least expect it. …
The Realtime IT Compliance blog carried a significant post the other day – the first signs of US civil lawsuits against companies losing customer data. In this case, it is a $54 million claim against Best Buy for losing a …
I read in ComputerWeekly that the House of Lords Science & Technology Committee is to re-open its inquiry into e-crime and the security of personal data, apparently due to the Government’s “vacuous, idle and irrelevant” response to its initial recommendations. …
For those boardrooms still slow to grasp the strategic importance of IT governance and information security, the BBC offers a nice simple graph to bring home the scale of the challenge. It comments: “Reports vary but some estimates suggest there …
Also from ComputerWeekly, Chief Information Officers need to take a leading role in setting up formal information classification schemes to stop them over-engineering them to comply with security regulations, according to a report from the Information Security Forum. Well, yes …
The most recent survey from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) reveals that there are now 898,000 ISO9001 certifications worldwide, a 16% increase on the previous year. It also reveals that there are now 5,800 ISO/IEC 27001 certifications worldwide – …
The UK Government’s Information Commissioner has now joined the call for people to be wary of identity fraudsters when using social networking sites. In a press release issued today (‘4.5 million young Brits’ futures could be compromised by their electronic …
The UK government claimed that the person who burnt the HMRC child benefit database to a disc and mailed it to the National Audit Office (NAO) was a relatively junior civil servant who had breached rules and would be subject …
While one swallow might not make a summer, multiple breaches of one particular law (Information Commissioner: “we are already investigating two other breaches”) do rather suggest that the organization concerned has little interest in compliance with it. Her Majesty’s Revenue …
Once upon a time, there was only BS7799 for information security – now there are three parts to it, two of which have become internationalised (ISO27001) and are part of a series which has something like 20 numbers reserved for …
