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Subject: Information System Security Assessment Framework (ISSAF) Draft
0.1
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:56:09 +0530
From: admoore@phreaker.net <admoore@phreaker.net>
Reply-To: admoore@phreaker.net
To: gideon@infostruct.net
Dear Colleague,
Today, the evaluation of Information Systems (IS) security in accordance with
business requirements is a vital component of any organizations business
strategy. While there are a few information security assessment standards,
methodologies and frameworks that talk about what areas of security must be
considered, they do not contain specifics on HOW and WHY existing security
measures should be assessed, nor do they recommend controls to safeguard them.
The Information System Security Assessment Framework (ISSAF) is a peer reviewed structured
framework that categorizes information system security assessment into various domains
& details specific evaluation or testing criteria for each of these domains. It aims
to provide field inputs on security assessment that reflect real life scenarios. ISSAF
should primarily be used to fulfill an organization’s security assessment
requirements and may additionally be used as a reference for meeting other information
security needs. ISSAF includes the crucial facet of security processes and, their
assessment and hardening to get a complete picture of the vulnerabilities that might
exists.
The information in ISSAF is organized into well defined evaluation criteria,
each of which has been reviewed by subject matter experts in that domain. These
evaluation criteria include:
• A description of the evaluation criteria.
• Its aims & objectives
• The pre-requisites for conducting the evaluations
• The process for the evaluation
• Displays the expected results
• Recommended countermeasures
• References to external documents
A draft version of this framework is available at OISSG website at:
http://oissg.org/issaf01/issaf0.1.zip (5.59 MB) or
http://oissg.org/issaf01/issaf0.1.pdf (12.6 MB)
The Information System Security Assessment Framework (ISSAF) is an evolving
document that will be expanded, amended and updated in future. To improve the
usefulness of the future release of ISSAF, please take a moment to evaluate it.
Your feedback is invaluable to OISSG's efforts to fully serve the profession
and future ISSAF releases. The feedback form is given at the end of ISSAF;
please email your feedback at feedback@oissg.org. We will get back to you ASAP.
Best regards,
A.D. Moore
