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History

Initially Developed by the UK DTI with Private Sector.

Timeline

1989 ? Users Code of Practice

1995 ? BS7799-1995 Initial Release

1999 ? BS7799-1999 Major Revision, split into guidelines (code of practice) and standard
(required for an information security management system)

2000 ? ISO/IEC 17799 Accepted as International Standard (code of practice)

2002 ? BS7799-2-2002 Official Standard for Certification

2005 (August) ? Last update of BS 7799

2005 (October) ? ISO 27001 with ISO 17799 as Annex A (BS 7799 withdrawn)


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