Open Directory - Computers: Security: Policy
- A report on Acceptable Usage Policy, inlcuding what corporations expect of it, a case study, and a framework for creating your own policy. - 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. - Presents the presentation of the 20th NISSC Internet Technical Security Policy Panel - A white paper providing the reader with new and innovative aspects on the process of building a Security Policy, as well as managing a Security Awareness Program. [PDF] - Unofficial / unverified article describing Canada's export controls on cryptographic software. - International user group and hub for CobiT, the emerging IT control and security methodology. - Provides details of this US government scheme. - Discussion of what should go into the creation of an intrusion detection plan and the expected results. - An information resource for Federal IT security policies, including the FISMA, HSPD-12, FDCC, DIACAP, NIACAP and OMB directives. - Generally Accepted System Security Principles, developed by The International Information Security Foundation. [PDF] - [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. - A guide to computer and network security with a strong focus on writing and implementing security policy. This is primarily for security managers and system administrators. - Provides a wide range of policies, papers and related resources. - IT World article - essentially a review of Pentasafe's VigilEnt security policy management product. - Make and manage security policies. Run awareness programs with audits and e-learning to build a human firewall. - Non-profit, international research initiative dedicated to defining standards in security testing and business integrity testing. - Describes how to create and publish your company's platform for privacy performance policy,. A W3C initiative, in six steps. - A widely used, peer-reviewed, methodology for performing security tests. - Principles behind the W3C Platform for Privacy Preferences initiative. - A guide to developing computer security policies and procedures for sites that have systems on the Internet. Published 1997. - Assess your company's Return on Information Security Investment - Articles on security policies and other information security topics. - 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. - Security standards, transactions and code set standards, identifier standards, mailing lists, implementation guides, and administrative simplification. - This paper focuses on providing the reader with an overview of the current virus landscape and aids in developing best practice anti-virus policies. - Offers a paper presenting the core elements of security, and arguing that in order to properly address security, the most fundamental item necessary is a security policy. - Provides an article to discuss and explain the need for a comprehensive security policy, and some pointers to useful resources.
