About the ISO27k standards
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The ISO/IEC 27000-series numbering (“ISO27k”) has been reserved for a family of information security management standards, similar to the very successful ISO 9000 family of quality assurance standards and derived from a British Standard called BS 7799.

The following standards are either already published (shown in red) or works in progress:

  • ISO/IEC 27000 - will provide an overview/introduction to the ISO27k standards as a whole plus the specialist vocabulary used in ISO27k. Once approved by the members of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27, it should be published later this year.
  • ISO/IEC 27001:2005 is the Information Security Management System requirements standard (specification) against which over 4,700 organizations have been certified compliant.
  • ISO/IEC 27002:2005 is the code of practice for information security management describing a comprehensive set of information security control objectives and a set of generally accepted good practice security controls.
  • ISO/IEC 27003 will provide implementation guidance for ISO/IEC 27001.
  • ISO/IEC 27004 will be an information security management measurement standard to help improve the effectiveness of your ISMS.
  • ISO/IEC 27005:2008 is a new information security risk management standard released in June 2008.
  • ISO/IEC 27006:2007 is a guide to the certification or registration process for accredited ISMS certification or registration bodies.
  • ISO/IEC 27007 will be a guideline for auditing Information Security Management Systems.
  • ISO/IEC TR 27008 will provide guidance on auditing information security controls.
  • ISO/IEC 27010 will provide guidance on sector-to-sector interworking and communications for industry and government, supporting a series of sector-specific ISMS implementation guidelines starting with ISO/IEC 27011.
  • ISO/IEC 27011 will be information security management guidelines for telecommunications (also known as X.1051) and will be released soon.
  • ISO/IEC 27031 will be an ICT-focused standard on business continuity.
  • ISO/IEC 27032 will be guidelines for cybersecurity.
  • ISO/IEC 27033 will replace the multi-part ISO/IEC 18028 standard on IT network security.
  • ISO/IEC 27034 will provide guidelines for application security.
  • ISO 27799, although not strictly part of ISO27k, provides health sector specific ISMS implementation guidance. Updated info Aug 8th
  • Other ISO27k is a holding page with preliminary information on more ISO27k standards including sector/industry-specific ISMS implementation guidelines whose scopes and ISO27k numbers have not yet been determined.

 

The numbers, names and content of as-yet unpublished standards may well change prior to their publication, especially the early drafts.

 

NB: the information on this website has been gathered from ISO/IEC and similar official sources plus various unofficial sources such as newsletters from ISMS user groups, presentations by and private communications from members of various national standards bodies active on ISO27k business. This is NOT an official ISO/IEC website - we have no formal relationship with ISO/IEC. We simply do our best to present an accurate and complete picture but we cannot totally guarantee the integrity of all the information we provide here. Please contact ISO, IEC or your national standards body (e.g.NIST/ANSI, BSI, Standards NZ) for “official” information.

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