Rebuilding the human firewall
Michael E. Whitman, Philippa Fendler, John Caylor, Danny Baker · 2005
In 2000, a consortium of industry, government and academic representatives formed the Human Firewall Council, established on the premise that information security is a people problem, a managerial problem that does have some technical solutions. In 2004 the HFO changed hands, from the original commercial sponsoring organization to the ISSA. With this change came a need to revise and update the organization's Web site, and the Security Management Index, an online survey that allowed respondents to benchmark their organizations with their peers, based on the ISO 17799 standard. This paper overviews the efforts of a faculty and student development team in rebuilding the Human Firewall.