Developing a Model and a Tool to Manage the Information Security in Small and Medium Enterprises

The maturity and security management systems are essential in order to guarantee the continuity and stability of the companies in the current market situation. However, this requires that enterprises know in every moment their security maturity level and to what extend their information security system must evolve. In small and medium-sized enterprises, the application of security standards has an additional problem, which is the fact that they do not have enough resources to carry out an appropriate management. This security management system must have highly reduced costs for its implementation and maintenance in small and medium-sized enterprises (from here on refered to as SMEs) to be feasible. In this paper, we will put forward our proposal of a maturity model for security management in SMEs and we will briefly analyse other models that exist in the market. This approach is being directly applied to real cases, thus obtaining a constant improvement in its application.