The report from the JISC workshop referred to below should be out in
the next four weeks with plans for work resulting from the outcomes.
I'll be keeping this list (and others) informed of when the report is
available and other work/reports in the pipeline
Jane
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:53:10 +0000 John Hitches
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
> The views expressed are those of the individual and
> not necessarily those of the university.
----------------------
Dr P Jane Williams, Head of JISC ASSIST,
Computing Service, University of Bristol
Tyndall Avenue,
Bristol, BS8 1UD
Tel: 0117 9546850, Fax: 0117 9291576
http://www.jisc.ac.uk
Enquiries: [log in to unmask]
[log in to unmask]
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|