Acceptable Use Policy Report - A report on Acceptable Usage Policy: what corporations expect of it, a case study, and a framework for creating your own policy.
Aelita Enterprise Directory Manager - Secure "Rules and Roles" management platform that facilitates secure Exchange and Active Directory administration.
The Basics of an IT Security Policy - This paper is intended to address the importance of having a written and enforceable Information Technology (IT) security policy, and to provide an overview of the necessary components of an effective policy.
Best Practices in Network Security - Knowing how and what to protect and what controls to put in place is difficult. It takes security management, including planning, policy development and the design of procedures.
Browsing with a Loaded Gun - A strong web Security Policy is key to keeping your company safe in the net-centric world. (PDF format)
The BS7799 Security Zone - Information, guidence and resources to address the BS7799 security standard.
The Clark-Wilson Security Model - This paper explores the nature and scope of the Clark-Wilson (CW) model, which focuses on information integrity.
Computer and Information Security Policy - Formal IT security policy helps establish standards for IT resource protection by assigning program management responsibilities and providing basic rules, guidelines, and definitions for everyone in the organization. Policy thus helps prevent inconsistencies that can introduce risks, and policy serves as a basis for the enforcement of more detailed rules and procedures.
Considerations for an Acceptable Use Policy for a Commercial Enterprise - Computer security policies are the high cover that allow the computer security professional to effectively operate in an enterprise where the ultimate goal is to produce a product at a cost that allows the company to successfully compete in the marketplace.
Controlling Inside Threats: Stalking the Wild End User - Threats come to a computer system from two sources: those outside the firewall, and those inside the firewall. Outside threats are often more dramatic than inside threats - the cola crazed hacker breaching the firewall at 3 AM is a popular stereotype. However, inside threats will occur more often and consume more of a Security Manager's time.
Create Order with a Strong Policy - A well-written, well-run security policy keeps cracks from appearing in your network's foundation.
Creating Security Policies – Lessons Learned - After attending SANS training or other security classes we return to work with an eagerness to move forward with hardening servers, tightening firewalls, and implementing intrusion detection systems. This paper shows the reader some steps we have taken on our continuing journey towards a full set of security policies and procedures.
Danger Within - The threats to a network come in many forms - from disgruntled employees, corporate espionage, lax system administrators, faulty products and poorly educated users. All of these fall into one of three categories: malicious attacks, misconfiguration (vendor or administrator), and user ignorance.
Defining Policies Using Meta Rules - This paper seeks to initiate a discussion on how to design and implement security policies within a company through the use of meta rules.
Developing a Computer Security Proposal for Small Businesses - How to Start - It has been widely reported that computerization has played a significant role in the current economic expansion. However, when it comes to systems management in general, and systems security in particular, small businesses are ill prepared to deal with the challenges that increased automation and increased connectivity bring.
Developing Security Policies: Charting an Obstacle Course - This paper discusses the issues faced by those at my educational institution in trying to develop security policies. Some highlights include battling the myth of security, deciphering the meaning of security, receiving mixed signals about the importance of security, trying to keep it simple, trying to get it done quickly and trying to prevent it from failing.
Email Policy.com - Learn how to create a company e-mail policy and enforce it using email security software. Also lists sample email policies, books and links.
E-Policy - E-policy is a corporate statement and set-of-rules to protect the organisation from casual or intentional abuse that could result in the release of sensitive information, IT system failures or litigation against the organisation by employees or other parties.
Federal Systems Level Guidance for Securing Information Systems - The need for security guidelines and defense-in-depth strategies has never been greater. As a result Federal legislation has been / is being enacted to aid in securing of national information systems.
How to Check Compliance with your Security Policy - In an age were security is becoming more important to many organisations, it is important for such organisations to document their security policy, just as they would document their marketing policy, client service policy or accounting policies. But the effort of just documenting policies is insufficient, since it is no use going through the effort and costs of developing a security policy and not implementing or updating it.
How to Develop a Network Secuity Policy White Paper - This document is for business executives, and others, who want to know more about Internet and internetworking security, and what measures you can take to protect your site.
How to Develop Good Security Policies and Tips on Assessment and Enforcement - [Word Document] Invest the time up front to carefully develop sound policies and then identify ways to gauge their effectiveness and assess the level of compliance within your organization. Commit to spending the time and resources required to ensure that the policies are kept current and accurately reflect your company's security posture.
Information Security Awarewness Policy - This document will explain the implementation of a security awareness policy and in what ways it is used to involve the user to be more alert towards security issues.
The Information Security Forum - It has produced the standard to provide guidelines on all aspects of information security including IT, data, and computer controls.
Information Security Program Development - Security standards are needed by organizations because of the amount of information, the value of the information, and ease with which the information can be manipulated or moved.
Introduction and Education of Information Security Policies to Employees - Information Security Policies are necessary to ensure that important data, business plans and other confidential information are protected from theft or unauthorized disclosure. If employees of any organization are not aware of these policies, they will not know what is expected of them.
IT Security Cookbook - An excellent guide to computer & network security with a strong focus on writing and implementing security policy. This is primarily for security managers and system administrators.
Leveraging a Securing Awareness Program from a Security Policy - Activities and procedures that give the Security Polices credibility and visibility. That is, a program that uses activities such as news and anecdotal stories, situational examples and discussion to lend relevance and pertinence to the policies.
Make Your Web Site P3P Compliant - How to create and publish your company's platform for privacy performance policy, a W3C initiative, in 6 steps.
Managing Internet Use: Big Brother or Due Diligence? - This paper describes the major risks of granting widespread Internet access along with suggestions to mitigate them. It also covers monitoring policies and the privacy issues that arise from monitoring Internet use.
Outsourcing Security Management - This purpose of this paper is to highlight some high-level security issues, faced by organizations when outsourcing security management. Some key factors regarding preparation and management of the outsourcing partnership are also included.
An Overview of Corporate Computer User Policy - A corporate security policy is the gateway to a company’s intellectual property. In today’s world of information technology, the main threat to information security within a company is its employees.
PKI Policy Whitepaper - This PKI Note provides general information about PKI policy, the role that policy plays in a PKI and how that policy applies to both traditional and PKI-enabled business environments.
Policies and Procedures - A presentation from the SANS institute course "Building an Effective Security Infrastructure", which outlines the elements to be included when designing a corporate security policy. Also available for download in Power Point format.
Policy Over Policing - InfoWorld article - It's easy to develop e-mail and Internet policies, but education and documentation are crucial to their success.
Policy Primer - This short primer of developing security policies is taken from a full day tutorial titled "Proven Practices for Managing the Security Function".
P3P Guiding Principles - Principles behind the W3C Platform for Privacy Preferences initiative.
RFC2196 (Site Security Handbook) - a guide to developing computer security policies and procedures for sites that have systems on the Internet. Published 1997.
RUsecure Information Security Policies - The source site, including free to access download, for the ISO 17799-aligned RUsecure Information Security Policies.
Security, It's Not Just Technical - The goal of this paper is to introduce the need for an adequate information security policy within your respective workplace/organization.
Security Policies in a Global Organization - In order to deal with the issues around security policies in a global organization it is probably necessary to create a tiered structure of information security policies with some policies applying globally throughout the organization, and other policies applying to individual geographical, or regional entities.
Security Policy: What it is and Why - The Basics - A security policy is nothing more than a well-written strategy on protecting and maintaining availability to your network and it’s resources.
Sensitive But Unclassified - As a portion of virtually every organization’s policy, there will necessarily be rules and procedures that address the handling of information within that organization. Whether it is a corporation or a non-profit organization or the federal government, the loss of critical information can be damaging.
Site Security Policy Development - This paper outlines some issues that the writer of a Site Computer Security Policy may need to consider when formulating such a document.
Steps to a Secure Network - The typical corporate security objective of the past has been to protect the Enterprise network from the Internet, but as we are reading in the news today, this has not been enough. The first step in protecting the Enterprise is to set realistic expectations.
Structured Approach to Computer Security - A security policy is a set of rules written in general terms stating what is permitted and what is not permitted in a system during normal operation.
A System Security Policy for You - The purpose of this document is to meet the requirements of the GIAC Security Essentials assignment and to provide other interested parties with a reference document that they can use to get their System Security Policy (SSP) document started.
Technical Writing for IT Security Policies in Five Easy Steps - This paper points new policy technical writers in the right direction and provides a solid foundation from which to start. Follow these five easy steps when writing IT Security policies.
Toward Standardization of Information Security: BS 7799 - This paper describes BS 7799, the "Code of Practice for Information Security Management" as an information security management system, identifies the industry movement toward BS 7799 certification, reports the current effort involving the transformation of BS 7799 into ISO 17799 and suggests a need for the information security professional to familiar with BS 7799.
What Do I Put in a Security Policy? - Discussion of how to use all the available information on security policies to create a client specific policy. Contains a sample policy outline.
What makes a good security policy and why is one necessary? - Security does not come from automated applications, rather it is compromised of security applications or systems, processes and procedures and the personnel to implement both the systems and processes. In order to properly address security, the most fundamental item necessary is a security policy.
What's Your Policy? - If your company doesn't have written security policies, it's time it did, and Mark Edwards has some resources to help.
When a Security Policy Matures into a Security Solution… - It is only through the implementation of security policies with a policy framework and testing to see whether the security exposures were reduced that one can measure if the security policy matured into a security solution.
When Policies that have Always Worked, Don't - The scenario described in this paper outlines a failure of our human systems due to a limitation in our thinking about our procedures that could easily have had catastrophic results.
Why Security Policies Fail - Objective analysis reveals that many breaches are linked to common weaknesses in the security policy...accidents waiting to happen. This article focuses on strategic and systematic weaknesses that can slowly degrade security operations.
Windows 2000 Group Policy and Security - The use of Group Policy to simplify the network security tasks that you face as a network administrator. With Group Policy, you can ensure that the machines on your network remain in a secure configuration after you deploy them.
World of Information Security Management - This site contains information on BS 7799 (ISO/IEC 17799) including the official Register of BS 7799 Certificates, International BS 7799 User Group, papers on the application of BS 7799 produced by business around the world.
