Practical approach of a secure management system based on ISO/IEC 17799

For enterprises to be able to properly use information and communications technologies, it is necessary to have guides, metrics and tools that allow us to always know the level of our security and the points in which we are not covering it. In small and medium-size enterprises, the application of security standards has an additional problem, that is, the fact that they do not have enough resources to perform an appropriate management. In this article we analyze some of the existing maturity models and we compare them to the maturity model we are applying in practice. Finally we introduce a first approach to a scoreboard which is being developed as part of a security management tool for IT systems. This approach is being directly applied to real cases and it is obtaining a constant improvement in its application.