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…
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 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…
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 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…
December 3, 2010 All Threats? All Vulnerabilities? All Assets? One list I subscribe I saw this outrageous statement: ISO 27001 requires that you take account of all the relevant threats (and vulnerabilities) to…
May 28, 2010 “Impact” is not a Metric I never like to see the term ‘impact’. Its not a metric. I discuss how length, temperature, weight, are metrics whereas speed, acceleration, entropy…
December 27, 2009 Throwing in the towel I was saddened to hear of an InfoSec colleague who met with overwhelming frustration at work: After two years of dealing with such nonsense,…
January 26, 2009 Network Segmentation is Common Sense On one of the professional forums I subscribe to there was a request for “references” to justify the separation of development and production networks…
