The ISF's 1996/97 Information Security Status Survey was the most searching study ever conducted into the security of information systems in leading enterprises operating around the world. Surveyed organizations had a collective annual turnover of $450 billion. This report focussed on the general lessons that can be learnt about the effectiveness of information security arrangements and put forward a provides a new, quantitative yardstick – referred to in this report as the ‘benchmark’ standard – which ESF Members can use to reassess the condition of their security arrangements.
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