Archive for July 10th, 2005
IE7 will have antivirus/anti-phishing tech built in

Microsoft has detailed its forthcoming privacy and security plans, which incorporates antivirus technology from recently acquired Sybari, and enhanced anti-phishing software. “Anti-phishing will definitely be built in to IE 7,” said Brendon Lynch, senior privacy strategist at Microsoft.

Sounds cool.  I'm really looking forward to the built in RSS features of IE7. 

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Security Awareness Toolbox

The Information Warfare Site (IWar) is a great resource for Security Awareness. Iwar's Security Awareness Toolbox is an excellent page packed with enough Security Awareness content to make you sick of it.

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ISO 27001: Information Security Management

WHAT IS ISO 27001?

The ISO 27001 is the replacement for BS7799. It supplements the ISO 17799.

The BS7799 is the requirements for an Information Security Management System. The BS7799 is a framework for
the management of information security.  It is used to for the controls described within ISO 17799 may be selected. 

Management standards such as ISO 9001 is streamlined with the new 27001 and the PDCA model (Plan-Do-Check-Act) as well as 17799 which will eventually be renumbers to 27002.

More on the 27002: http://www.standards-online.net/InformationSecurityStandard.htm

More on 17799:http://www.17799.com

http://17799-news.the-hamster.com

More on 27001: http://www.27001-online.com