The ISO 17799 is an international standard, which contains as various control mechanisms for information security. The complete designation reads (ISO/CInternational Electronical Commission 17799:2000 (information technology -- Code OF practice for information security management) and corresponds contentwise to the British standard No. 7799, part of 1 (BS 7799-1: 1999).

Basis for the standardisation was here a collection of experiences, procedures and methods from practice, thus similar to ITIL around one "Best practice "beginning. A certifying according to ISO 17799 is not possible in principle. If an information safety management system is to be certified, this is possible only according to ISO 27001.

How did this standard

In the year 1995 the BSi (British standard of institutes) with the BS 7799 published the first standard within the range of information security around the safety aspects in connection with the arising E-Commerce to address. However the penetration was rather small due to some current problems like the forthcoming Y2K problem. That changed, as which BSi submitted a completely revised version in the year 1999 and the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) aroused the interest thus again. The ISO took the first part (the first part covers the criteria as basis of the standard) on and published this in the year 2000 under the name ISO 17799.

What are

The ISO 17799 is concerned with the following monitored areas:

• Guidelines: Define the quality desired of security in the enterprise.
• Tasks: Defines roles and competencies in the enterprise
• Classification/control of enterprise-critical data: A list of enterprise-critical data and the measures supplies to their protection
• Coworker security: Defines expectations at coworkers concerning security and privacy as well as the roles of the coworkers
• Physical security: Equipment safety, entrance protection and control mechanisms
• Communication and operation management: Is concerned with the protection and the integrity of information and enterprise data and the prevention of loss and abuse
• Access supervision: Control and monitoring measures for the access to networks and applications as well as the protection from intruders
• System development and maintenance
• Continuity management: Is concerned with measures with serious losses and the re-establishment after emergencies
• Guideline observance: Is concerned with the examination of safety guidelines and their conversion as well as with the definition of audit processes.

Which demarcation gives it to other standards and

• BSI IT-Grundschutzhandbuch

The basic protection manual defines concretely for the different aspects of a IT-landscape measures, which must be fulfilled for the preservation of security (wash notes). ISO 17799 against it is rather abstract, and specifies only the task ranges, without dealing with concrete measures. Furthermore ISO 17799 still deals with the tasks of management (ISMSS), which are not to be found at present so yet in the basic protection manual. Finally ISO 17799 is an international standard, while the basic protection manual admits primarily in Germany is.

• BS 7799-1
• BS 7799-2
• ITIL
• BS 15000
• CobiT
• ISO TR 13335

For the Healthcare range the standard ISO 27799 is special in elaboration

• ISO 27799: Health informatics - Security management in health using ISO 17799

See also

• Data security
• Computer security
• Internet security
• Network security
• IT-Grundschutz

Related links

• ISO 17799 Download (liable to pay the costs)
• ISO 17799 Wiki - English.

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