Bs7799 - Using Cobra

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The BS7799 was first issued by the British Standards Institute in 1995 and subsequently revised in 1999, 2000, 2002 and finally in 2005. The BS7799 had been fast tracked into ISO17799 and ISO27001. There are BS7799 certifications available from many independent accredited certification agencies the world over.

While the BS7799 has become the accepted standard for information security, all organizations are benchmarked against the standards set out in this statement but how to measure the compliance level in an organization. Here comes the COBRA which is specialized tool for assessment of BS7799 compliance in an organization.

COBRA is a PC based help your self consultant. Using a series of questions to which you need to response the actual situations to the best of your knowledge and belief, COBRA will make you wade through the whole gamut of the BS7799 standard. For each of the ten categories covered by the BS7799 it will seek to establish your compliance level through an interactive question answer session. Then it will identify which of the additional controls could be put into application at your organization ...
... to increase the compliance levels and thus improve the security of your ISMS. After completion of all the interactive sessions, it will generate a business report in a comprehensive format of what additional things need to be done and implemented to ensure compliance with BS7799 in the organization.

COBRA being a PC based tool can be used as a startup consultant. Slowly and steadily keep on evaluating your security systems using COBRA. As it contains a real knowledge base and employs artificial intelligence in analyzing the current situation, it acts more like realistic consultants and helps you to set your systems right before you approach a certifying body for carrying out the BS7799 audit. COBRA is an invaluable tool for pre-audit scrutiny and self evaluation.
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