BS7799, ISO17799, ISO27000 Series

Refer to the post at 17799.com forum , the following information is summarized "as is":

ISO27001 is to be the replacement for BS7799-2 by the end of year 2005
ISO 17799:2005 will be renamed in year 2006 or 2007 as ISO/IEC 27002

A new standard for BS7799 series:

BS 7799-3:2005 - information security management systems - guidelines for information security risk management" is a new British Standard due for release in December 2005

The new ISO27000 series will have five parts:

ISO 27000 will formally define the specific technical vocabulary used in these standards;
ISO 27001 will be the ISO version of BS 7799-2, the certification standard (due for full release in November 2005, already available as a final draft);
ISO 27002 will be the renamed and updated version of ISO 17799:2005 (to be released in 2006 or 2007);
ISO 27003 will contain guidance for those implementing the ISO 27000-series standards;
ISO 27004 will be a new Information Security Management Metrics and Measurement standard to help measure the effectiveness of information security management system implementations (currently in draft);
ISO 27005 will be the ISO version of BS 7799-3 

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