IT Security Controls: A Guide to Corporate Standards and Frameworks

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V. Viegas, O. KuyucuIT Security Controlshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7799-7_2

2. International Security Standards

Virgilio Viegas¹   and Oben Kuyucu¹

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Doha, Qatar

 

Organizations must increasingly demonstrate to their customers that they have sufficient protection, security, resilience, and privacy of their information, assets and systems, based on best practices. International information security standards applicable for all organizations such as ISO 27000 series or industry-specific information security standards such as PCI DSS and SWIFT were created for that reason. When organizations show their compliance to these standards, their customers acknowledge ...