From: Federal Times
Bryan Cunningham
In the late 1970s, Leonard Nimoy (RIP Mr. Spock) hosted a weekly television “documentary” called “In Search Of…,” in which he quested after Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and other mythical creatures or phenomena. Nimoy’s mysterious quarry almost always eluded him.
Many, myself included, generally expect the same outcome for international privacy and IT security standards that enhance the national security of countries implementing them: they are myths. But ISO (the Geneva-based multinational International Organization for Standardization) may have managed just such a mythical feat with its first-of-its-kind standard 27018, formally entitled “Information technology — Security techniques – Code of practice for protection of personally identifiable information (PII) in public clouds acting as PII processors” (ISO 27018).
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