CHAPTER 1: THE ISO/IEC 27000 FAMILY OF INFORMATION SECURITY STANDARDS

ISO27001, the international Information Security Management Standard, was published in 2005, and is becoming widely known and followed.

It is now part of a much larger family, of which ISO/IEC 27000 is the root for a whole numbered series of international standards for the management of information security.

Developed by a subcommittee of a joint technical committee (ISO/IEC JTC SC27) of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) in Geneva and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), these standards now provide a globally recognised framework for good information security management.

The correct designation for most of these standards includes the ISO/IEC prefix ...

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