Meeting with Prof. Edward Humphreys (Father of ISMS Standard)

During The opening ceremony of Pacific Accreditation Cooperation (PAC) Plenary Meeting 2012 cum seminar on "The Emerging Trend of Accreditation and Certification" on 18 Jun 2012 in Hong Kong, I am honorable to meet Prof. Edward Humphreys, who was the "Father" of Information Security Management System (ISMS) standard. Then we took a photo for memory.

Prof. Edward Humphreys has been involved in the field of information security for 35 years. During this time he has worked for major international companies (in Europe, North America and Asia), as well organizations and institutions such as the European Commission, Council of Europe and the OECD. He is well known and recognized as the “father” of the ISMS family of ISO/IEC standards. He is the chair of the ISO/IEC Working Group responsible for the development of these ISMS standards. He has played a major part in the development of ISMS certification in the UK and around the world. He is the originator of the European accreditation criteria published in EA 7/03 which then became an ISO/IEC standard.

Prof. Edward Humphreys was the seventh speaker in the seminar and his talk was summarized at http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2012/06/seminar-on-emerging-trend-of.html

One of his paper I referred to my EngD study named "Information Security Management Standards: Compliance, Governance and Risk Management" which published in 2008. My research title was "The Development of QMS based Information Security Management (QISM) Implementation Model" and completed in 2010.

Reference
- Edward Humphreys (2008) "Information Security Management Standards: Compliance, Governance and Risk Management", Information Security Technical Report, Vol 13, Issue 4, P247–255.

- Lai, Lotto K.H., Chin, K.S. & Tsang, A.H.C. (2009) “Integration of Quality Management System and Information Security Management System – HKSTP implementation case” Proceedings CD-ROM of The seventh ANQ Congress, paper HK02.

- Lai, Lotto K.H., Chin, K.S. & Tsang, A.H.C. (2010) “Risk Management of Information Security – Information Security FMEA Circle” The eighth ANQ Congress, paper HK01. (Reprinted in SQI Yearbook 2011, pp.66-72)