It should be noted that the 10 Key controls are from the original
version of the standard and are not found in the revised edition
of BS7799 published this year. However, they do give a
reasonable basic summary of the standard.
John Hitches
>
> Under the aegis of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) JISC
> Assist has recently held a workshop to discuss the possibility of a
> generic IS policy based on BS7799 the CoP on Infornmation Security
> Management and the outcome of this workshop will be to hand hopefully in
> the next two months. In essence BS7799 covers ten key controls which
> should be considered in the formulation of an IS policy for any
> organisation. I attach these as a file and hope that the system accepts
> them as I am new to the mailbase.
>
J F Hitches
Computing Services Administrative and Security Officer
Kingston University
Millennium House
21 Eden Street, Kingston upon Thames
Surrey, KT1 1BL
Telephone/Fax: 0208 547 7768
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