1 Trust and Legitimacy in Security Standardization – a new Management Issue ?

IT Security has to deal with a number of rather unique factors that pose new challenges for managing standardization processes in this field. This has recently led to attempts to establish this problem domain as an area of research in its own right under the heading IT Security Standardization Research. Research in this area focuses strongly on interdependencies between academic, institutional, and real-world practices, including aspects of governance. Such work represents one of several attempts to underpin trust in the processes, management, and results of IT security standardization, and may, in future, provide a hub for “externalized” and independent self-reflection in this area.