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The New Israeli Standard for Information Security Will Draw on Comsec e-Sure Methodology
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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 05:02:46 -0500
http://www.globes.co.il/cgi-bin/Serve_Arena/pages/English/1.3.1.9 Wednesday, Sep 6, 2000 The Standards Institute of Israel (SII) will base its new information security standard upon the British Standard BS 7799, the most widely recognized standard for information security management toady. To implement this standard, the SII will draw on Israeli and international standards as well as widely accepted implementation methodologies for information security, including the e-Sure security standard for e-commerce certification. E-Sure was recently launched by the Comsec Group group (TASE: CMSC). The new Israeli standard will address a variety of information security related issues, from organizational and procedural matters to technological issues. Implementation of this standard across organizations, especially e-commerce Web sites, will involve using Israeli and international standards, as well as existing methodologies. "Many organizations in Israel have expressed the need to have a common standard on best practice for information security management," says Ziva Patir from the Standards Institute of Israel. "The widely increasing demand on the part of these businesses to provide them with a comprehensive organizational solution with information security in mind has led us to use leading professional and international methodologies and standards," she added. Comsec provides high-end e-business security solutions to organizations in Israel and overseas. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Petach Tikva, Israel, the group operates through four subsidiaries. Comsec is the single Israeli representative of ICSA in the Middle East, Europe and Africa and the proprietary owner of e-Sure. The group went public on March 2000 on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) as the most over-subscribed offering recorded in the Exchange's history, oversubscribing 11,000 times. Market capitalization is valued at $60 million. ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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