Is BS7799 For You?

BS7799 is the UK national standard for best practice in information security derived from the International Standard ISO/IEC 17799:2000. This standard comes in two parts and replaces BS 7799-1:1999 which has now been withdrawn.

Incidence Response Teams

A major part of any organisations IRP is the team that is responsible for handling the incidents using the process and method outlined in section 1.2.1. Whilst it is strongly recommended that every organisation should have an IRP in place, this is not necessarily the case with an incidence response team. However, each organisation should have an individual such as the corporate security officer who…

Python in Systems Administration: Part I — Better Scripting

One well-honed item in every sys admin's toolbox is a preferred scripting language -- maybe sh, or ksh, or Perl, or something more unusual, like Rexx or Ruby. I find Python so capable and easy to learn that in my consulting role at Phaseit, I tell newcomers it's the best single language they can learn. Python spans a wider range of applications than any other…

BS7799 Compliancy and Certification

What is Compliancy? Compliancy with BS7799 requires an organisation to have implemented and documented their Information Security Management System (ISMS) in accordance with the control objectives set out in the BS7799-1:2000 documentation.