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• TITLE: The Challenge of Implementing Information Security Standards in Small and Medium e-Business Enterprises

  AUTHORS: Ja’far Alqatawna

  KEYWORDS: Information Security Standards, e-Business, Small and Medium Enterprises

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, Vol.7 No.10, September 24, 2014

  ABSTRACT: The dynamic nature of online systems requires companies to be proactive with thwarting information security threats, and to follow a systematic way for managing and evaluating the security of their online services. The existence of security standards is an important factor that helps organisations to evaluate and manage security by providing guidelines and best practices that enable them to follow a standard and systematic way to protect their e-Business activities. However, the suitability of available information security standards for Small and Medium e-Business Enterprises (e-SME) is worth further investigation. In this paper three major security standards including Common Criteria, System Security Engineering-Capability and Maturity Model and ISO/IEC 27001 were analysed. Accordingly, several challenges associated with these standards that may render them difficult to be implemented in e-SME have been identified.