Implementing ISO27001 in a Windows® Environment (Download)

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The information security management standard (ISMS), ISO/IEC 27001, provides a significant implementation challenge for all organisations.  A significant number of the controls to be applied will, of necessity, be technical and will relate to how IT hardware and software are set up and configured.  As a result, there is often a gulf in understanding as to what is required between the ISO27001 ISMS project manager and those responsible for implementing the technical controls.

A step-by-step guide through the journey of implementing ISO27001

Implementing ISO27001 in a Windows^® Environment does an outstanding job of helping parties on both sides to bridge the gulf. It identifies the recommended technical controls of ISO27001’s Annex A and, for a Microsoft environment, provides guidance on how (if, on the basis of a risk assessment, they are considered necessary) to implement them.

This book fills a major hole in the guidance literature for ISO27001 and makes a significant contribution to helping both project managers and IT and security staff get to grips with what controls are appropriate to mitigate identified risks.  It is designed as a step-by-step guide through the journey of implementing ISO27001 in a Microsoft^® Windows^® environment.

The author, Brian Honan, is recognised as an industry expert on information security, in particular on the ISO27001 information security standard.  Brian was a founding member of the Irish Corporate Windows NT^® User Group and also established Ireland’s first ever national Computer Security Incident Response Team. He is a member of the Information Systems Security Association, Irish Information Security Forum, Information Systems Audit and Control Association, and a member of the Irish Computer Society and the Business Continuity Institute.

"At first glimpse of Implementing ISO27001 in a Windows Environment I initially placed it in "another Windows Security book for dummies" category mentally. How wrong I was. Brian Honan took the necessary steps to place information in a context which was easy to run with in any environment and oddly, the knowledge placed in this book should make it easy to utilize this information in not just a Windows environment, but in any shop be it a Solaris, Linux or AIX shop".  J Oquendo, Senior Security Engineer, AEON.  Read his full comments here.