Talk:ISO/IEC 17799

It would be helpful to talk a bit more about "assets" and what is its definition according to the standard herein.

--M. B., Jr. 15:23, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure you mean to address this to ISO 17799? The reason I ask is that it may be more appropriate for 27001 or elsewhere. 17799 doesn't focus on assets, hardly at all, in terms of definition or value (eg: for BIA and risk analysis). This is more the case under 27001 or perhaps BS7799-3. --Binarygal

Its 2005 version has the asset management section. Maybe creating/improving a disambiguation article and linking it here and in the 27001 page would be better.

--M. B., Jr. 20:37, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes it does. But the article here does not go through the standard in that manner: if section 7 was covered in that depth, every other section would have to be covered similarly. Equally, 17799 does not define assets as you suggest above. I suspect that may be present in another standard, but could be wrong. In summary I don't think focus on assets in an article of this size is appropriate. Just my opinion. --Binarygal

Twelve main sections.
After the introductory sections, the 2005 version of the standard contains the following twelve main sections:

Why does this start at 4? MortimerCat 22:34, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

... because the lower-numbered sections are introductory in nature i.e. 0 Introduction; 1 Scope; 2 Terms and definitions; 3 Structure of this standard. We could easily enough add this to the main page if this is a common query. 124.157.71.95 00:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)