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| For over a hundred years, the British Standards Institute (BSI) has carried out studies for the purpose of establishing effective, high-quality industry standards. BS 7799 was developed at the beginning of the 1990s in response to industry, government and business requests for the creation of a common information security structure. In 1995 the BS 7799 standard was officially adopted. |
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| Four years went by before the publication in May 1999 of a second major version of the BS 7799 standard, incorporating numerous improvements. It was during this period that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) began to take an interest in the work published by the British institute. |
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| In December 2000, ISO took over the first part of BS 7799, re-baptizing it ISO 17799. In 2002, BSI published extensive documentation to help companies support ISO/IEC 17799:2000 and BS 17799-2:2002 implementation. Five guides (PD 3000 series) became available. A revision of the second part of the BS 7799 standard was also carried out in order to make it consistent with other management standards such as ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:1996.
Consultations are currently taking place on an international scale to keep BS 7799 / ISO 17799 at the leading edge of the latest developments.
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