Information Security Risk Management for ISO 27001/Iso27002

ISBN-13: 9781849280433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 198 str.

Alan Calder; Steve G. Watkins

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Expert guidance on planning and implementing a risk assessment and protecting your business information. In the knowledge economy, organisations have to be able to protect their information assets. Information security management has, therefore, become a critical corporate discipline. The international code of practice for an information security management system (ISMS) is ISO27002. As the code of practice explains, information security management enables organisations to ensure business continuity, minimise business risk, and maximise return on investments and business opportunities . ISMS requirements The requirements for an ISMS are specified in ISO27001. Under ISO27001, a risk assessment has to be carried out before any controls can be selected and implemented, making risk assessment the core competence of information security management. This book provides information security and risk management teams with detailed, practical guidance on how to develop and implement a risk assessment in line with the requirements of ISO27001.

The changing global economy, together with recent corporate and IT governance developments, all provide the context within which organisations have to assess risks to the information assets on which their organisations, and the delivery of their business plan objectives, depend. Information security management decisions are entirely driven by specific decisions made as an outcome of a risk assessment process in relation to identified risks and specific information assets. Risk assessment is, therefore, the core competence of information security management.