Cybersecurity Policies
Security policies, guides and templates to help you get started with your own.
Cybersecurity-policies are not an effective how-to-guide in implementing an organizational cybersecurity program, indeed large data breach events still occur among organizations with extensive cybersecurity policy programs. Policies can be a useful organizational risk-management tool, however, policies on their own do not save organizations from cyber-threats or cyber-incidents. Read it twice and let it sink in.
Strong cybersecurity culture can be an effective way to reduce organizational cyber-risk. Fostering an internal cybersecurity safety culture that embraces cyber-risk-reduction and cyber-threat-prevention mindset by regularly engaging with staff on cybersecurity topics can be a more effective risk-reduction utility than cyber-policies that are not read or observed.
General Security Policies
- SANS Institute: General security policy templates - sans.org
- CIS: Password Policy Guide - cisecurity.org
Compute Security Policies
- SANS Institute: Server security policy templates - sans.org
Network Security Policies
- SANS Institute: Network security policy templates - sans.org
Automatic Policy Generators
- Jemurai: https://github.com/Jemurai/policy/tree/main
- JupiterOne: https://github.com/JupiterOne/security-policy-templates
A Sharp Reminder
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