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Welcome to Security Standards. This website's goal is to assist information technology professionals understand the industry's information security standards in their various forms and to understand the standards applicability.
Standards, Guidelines, Best practices (Security Artifacts)
Finding or achieving the right level of security can be difficult work in any organization. Security standards, regulation, guidelines and best practices can help Information security professionals learn what security controls other information technology professionals have determined are required or effective through the work and research of others. However, from a buisiness perspective, governments have also created security requirement documents for industry, (like in the case of Sarbanes-Oxley) with little input from business and regard for the cost and burden it will put on businesses.
This web site's goal is to bring well known security artefacts into one place and provide a place for security professionals to talk about how they have interpreted them to achieve the right level of security for their company.
Security Artifacts
Like many terms, the meanings of the words "standard", "regulation","guideline", "policy" and "best practice" will vary from individual or organization to organization and may even be uses differently by Key Standards Associations and Institutes and government policy organizations.
Industry Specific
Broad-use Standards, suitable for industry non specific, international use
Technology or domain specific
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