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Information security audits are essential for the assessment of enterprise cyber security maturity levels, both from a technical and organizational perspective. A common way of conducting such an assessment is to carry out a security audit based on the international security standard ISO 27001. However, modern organizations often have complex or even global supply chains, which are hard to secure. Verification of sufficient security levels across organizations is a non-trivial task and requires trust between all entities. This paper explores the feasibility of a blockchain-based distributed information security audit, highlights the encountered challenges, and contributes to the discussion of distributed security audits.
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The work presented in this paper was done at the Josef Ressel Center for Blockchain Technologies and Security Management, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria. The financial support by the Christian Doppler Research Association, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital, and Economic Affairs and the National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development is gratefully acknowledged. Furthermore, parts of this work were funded by the COIN-project “Secure Supply Chains for Critical Systems” (SSCCS, FFG-Nr. 883977) by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).
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König, L., Pirker, M., Geyer, H., Feldmann, M., Tjoa, S., Kieseberg, P. (2023). DISA - A Blockchain-Based Distributed Information Security Audit. In: Delir Haghighi, P., et al. Information Integration and Web Intelligence. iiWAS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14416. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48316-5_4
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