Here is a very good Post from the Pen Test Magazine, which i would like to share with you It is our pleasure to announce we are offering another document for free download - a white paper called Checklist of ISO 27001 Mandatory Documentation. Why this white paper is useful: It lists all mandatory documents and records required by ISO 27001. It briefly outlines how to structure each manda...
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A hacking anatomy and what we can learn out of it!
There is nearly no single week , we don’t read in the news that there is a attack launched against a government, business or organization. As we all know there is NO WAY to STAP a Hacker. All what we can do is make their job harder ? But how?
The best way is to keep an eye on Security News, to subscribe to some newsletters etc. Once a incide...
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Online Security is getting every day more and more important. It’s so common these days to implement secure password policies, which is at least 8 characters, with minimum 1 special character like @$# …. More and more cooperation's taking care of Passwords as nearly every day a new “hack incidents “ happens…
We all expect at least banks take care of secur...
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The FREE ISO27k Toolkit consists of a collection of ISMS-related materials contributed by members of the ISO27k Forum, either individually or through collaborative working groups organized on the Forum. We are very grateful for their generosity in allowing us to share them with you.
The Toolkit is a work-in-progress: further contributions are most welcome
To download the ISO 27000 Toolkit click he...
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What is in the ISO27001 standard? The ISO27001 information security standard is the one standard amongst the ISO27000 family of standards against which an organisation’s ISMS can be audited and certified. The goal of the ISO27001 standard is to ‘provide a model for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining, and improving an information security management syste...
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The plan, do, check and act cycle (PDCA) Plan (establishing the ISMS): Establish the policy, the ISMS objectives, processes and procedures related to risk management and the improvement of information security to provide results in line with the global policies and objectives of the organization. Do (implementing and workings of the ISMS): Implement and exploit the ISMS policy, controls, proc...
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Source : IsecT Ltd.
ISO/IEC 27001 is the formal set of specifications against which organizations may seek independent certification of their Information Security Management System (ISMS).
ISO/IEC 27001 specifies requirements for the establishment, implementation, monitoring and review, maintenance and improvement of a management system - an overall management and control framework - for ma...
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ISO/IEC 27005:2011 Information technology — Security techniques — Information security risk management (second edition) Abstract from the 2008 1st edition: “ISO/IEC 27005 provides guidelines for information security risk management. It supports the general concepts specified in ISO/IEC 27001 and is designed to assist the satisfactory implementation of information security based on a risk manageme...
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To protect an organisation's IT infrastructure and information, security management procedures should adopted. At a minimum an organisation should adopt he recommendations below.
Firewall
Use a firewall. A firewall acts as a barrier between the public internet and the organisations network. It helps to protect the servers and PC's on the network from hackers and viruses.
Anti-Virus Software
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The scope of ISO/IEC 27000 is “to specify the fundamental principles, concepts and vocabulary for the ISO/IEC 27000 (information security management system) series of documents.” ISO/IEC 27000 contains the overview and vocabulary, in other words: An overview of the ISO27k standards showing how they are used collectively to plan, implement, certify and operate an ISMS, with a basi...
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