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weiss2005comprehensive

Steffen Weiß, Oliver Weißmann and Falko Dressler, "A Comprehensive and Comparative Metric for Information Security," Proceedings of IFIP International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modeling and Analysis 2005 (ICTSM 2005), Dallas, TX, November 2005, pp. 1–10.

Abstract

Measurement of information security is important for organizations to justify security decisions and investments. Unfortunately, there are no metrics available that allow for a comprehensive security assessment of an entire organization. It turned out that there are two main aspects which are important to develop such a metric. On the one hand, an appropriate security indicator is required and, on the other hand, a method for combining single security aspects to an overall security measure for an entire organization. An approach fulfilling these two aspects is presented in this article. Besides a comparable indicator, based on the intuitive understanding of security, an approach is proposed for combining single security aspects to reflect the organization's security assessment. The presented approach was evaluated on a small university department. It will influence on forthcoming ISO 27004 metric-standard, which aligns with the already existing and well known ISO 17799.

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@inproceedings{weiss2005comprehensive,
    author = {Wei{\ss}, Steffen and Wei{\ss}mann, Oliver and Dressler, Falko},
    title = {{A Comprehensive and Comparative Metric for Information Security}},
    pages = {1--10},
    publisher = {International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)},
    address = {Dallas, TX},
    booktitle = {IFIP International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modeling and Analysis 2005 (ICTSM 2005)},
    month = {11},
    year = {2005},
   }
   
   

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