Interpreting the Development of Information Security Industry from Standards

Information security has been a significant concern in personal life, enterprise development, city construction, and national competitiveness. Information security standards, as an important regulatory and guiding tool, reflects the consensus reached by the industry and therefore are important references to understand an industry. This study explores a new angle to understand the development of the information security industry by analyzing the external and content features of related standards. Based on the available metadata and the possible dimensions, a standards' features index system and a roadmap of analysis are constructed. The Chinese and ISO information security standards are selected to verify the method. The result shows the evolution of the industry, the status quo, and the future trend of the information security industry.