The cornerstones of information security: standards and recommendations.
Guided by the principle of varietas delectat, we open up the gates of the world of security and have a look inside the bedrooms of the most advanced ones (the USA, UK and Germany), in the hope of getting an idea of their “worries and pains”, how they think when it comes to security issues. Our endeavor should be propelled not only by curiosity, as their griefs will also be ours with our accession to the EU.
In the followings, we treat as an axiom that problems relating to IT security are a global concern, and we think that such problems are strongly interacting with the challenges of the information society. We see that the novelty of the questions to be solved and the spectacular development of the information society puts legislation and the application of law often in a difficult situation. At the same time, it can be seen that great efforts are made all over the world to pass the adequate laws and harmonize legislation internationally. International organizations (among them the EU and OECD) publish many guidelines and recommendations in order to help solving the member states' problems.
This much of introductory explanation is probably enough before going into overviewing the most widely accepted and advanced information security standards that exist today.
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