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Announcing the public availability of the Cisco Cloud Controls Framework (CCF)

Cisco Security

covers these security compliance framework and certification standards: SOC 2® – SOC for Service Organizations: Trust Services Criteria. ISO IEC 27001:2013Information technology — Security techniques — Information security management systems — Requirements. Today, the Cisco CCF V1.0

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The dreaded Statement of Applicability

Notice Bored

The organisation cannot adopt a generic suite of information security controls simply on the basis that they have been recommended or suggested by someone - not even if they are noted in Annex A. Justification for including a control is its effect on modifying information security risk. Subclause 6.1.3 Subclause 6.1.3

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First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine

Krebs on Security

The SEC said that under First American’s remediation policies, if the person responsible for fixing the problem is unable to do so based on the timeframes listed above, that employee must have their management contact the company’s information security department to discuss their remediation plan and proposed time estimate.

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ISO/IEC 27002 update

Notice Bored

The newly-published third edition of ISO/IEC 27002 is a welcome update to the primary ISO27k controls catalogue (officially, a 'reference set of generic information security controls'). Aside from restructuring and generally updating the controls from the 2013 second edition, the committee (finally!) hopefully.

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Thus, it can be difficult for even small enterprises to keep up with information security and data privacy compliance. Sometimes, however, information security, data privacy, and IT compliance overall are people problems more than they are pure data problems. Security, Privacy and Compliance Can Conflict.

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From a tech explosion to accidental cyberattacks, researchers offer a glimpse into 2030

SC Magazine

But what might they offer the front-facing information security officer – someone with a ten-year plan, wondering what to prepare for down the line? The project is based on work Baines did for Europol’s Cyber Crimes Center, Project 2020, which made a similar series of predictions in 2013 targeting last year.

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NBlog Sept 24 - status of ISO27001 Annex A

Notice Bored

One of the recurrent (zombie) threads on the ISO27k Forum concerns the status of ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Annex A. Typically the zombie is prodded from its slumber by a relatively inexperienced member naively suggesting that certain security controls from Annex A are essential, implying that they are mandatory for certification.

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