July 2, 2016 Nobody wants to pay for security, including security companies https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nobody-wants-pay-security-including-companies-beno%C3%AEt-h-dicaire In theory, consumers and businesses could punish Symantec for these oversights by contracting with other security vendors. In practice, there’s no guarantee that…
November 19, 2014 Should all applicable controls be mentioned in documenting an ISMS? In my very first job we were told, repeatedly told, to document everything and keep our personal journals up to date. Not just with…
May 30, 2013 Confusion over Physical Assets, Information Assets – Part Two So I need to compile a list of ALL assets, information or otherwise, NO! That leads to tables and chairs and powerbars. OK so…
May 30, 2013 Confusion over Physical Assets, Information Assets in ISO-27000 I often explain that Information Security focuses on Information Assets. Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads,…
May 14, 2013 Does ISO 27001 compliance need a data leakage prevention policy? On one of the ISO-27000 lists I subscribe to I commented that one should have a policy to determine the need for and the…
March 26, 2013 What is the goal behind calculating assets in ISO-27000? My friend and colleague Gary Hinson said about asset valuation in ISO-27000 So, for instance, it’s hard to say exactly how much the HR…
February 17, 2013 Information Gathering and Risk Assessment On the ISO2700 forum one user gave a long description of his information gathering process but expressed frustration over what to do with it…
October 2, 2012 How much Risk Assessment is needed? In many of the InfoSec forums I subscribe to people regularly as the “How long is a piece of string” question: How extensive a…
August 9, 2012 How to build an asset inventory for 27001 How do you know WHAT assets are to be included in the ISO-27K Asset Inventory? This question and variants of the “What are assets…
June 29, 2012 Control objectives – Why they are important http://blog.iso27001standard.com/2012/04/10/iso-27001-control-objectives-why-are-they-important/ Let us leave aside the poor blog layout, Dejan’s picture ‘above the fold’ taking up to much screen real estate. In actuality he’s…
March 31, 2012 Help on ISO-27000 SoA This kind of question keeps coming up, many people are unclear about the Statement of Applicability on ISO-27000. The SoA should outline the measures…
March 24, 2012 Surely compliance is binary? Call me a dinosaur (that’s OK, since its the weekend and dressed down to work in the garden) but … Surely COMPLIANCE is a…
March 18, 2012 About ISO 27001 Risk Statement and Controls On the ISO27000 Forum list, someone asked: I’m looking for Risk statement for each ISO 27k control; meaning “what is the risk of not…
November 13, 2011 Which Risk Framework to Use: FAIR, FRAP, OCTAVE, SABSA … What framework would you use to provide for quantitative or qualitative risk analysis at both the micro and macro level? I’m asking about a…
August 24, 2011 The real reasons for documentation – and how much he documentation required and/or needed by ISO-2700x is a perenial source of dispute in the various forums I subscribe to. Of course management has…
July 2, 2011 The Question of Residual Risk value People keep asking questions like If the risk equation I use is Impact * Probability, when it comes to calculating the residual risk value…
July 2, 2011 Risk Models that hide important information Some people seem to be making life difficult for themselves with risk models such as “Impact * Probability” and as such have lead themselves…
