Information Security Policy

Policy objective: [Outcome this policy governs]
Scope: [People, systems, locations, and activities covered]

1. Purpose, Scope, and Security Objectives

[Systems, people, locations, regulatory scope, security objectives, and policy owner.]

2. Governance and Risk Ownership

[CISO or accountable executive, risk acceptance authority, control owners, committee cadence, and metrics.]

3. Asset and Data Classification

[Asset inventory owner, classification levels, handling rules, retention, and disposal.]

4. Identity and Access Management

[Joiner-mover-leaver process, MFA, privileged access, reviews, service accounts, and break-glass logging.]

5. Secure Configuration and Vulnerability Management

[Baseline, patch SLAs by severity, scanning cadence, remediation owner, and exception expiry.]

6. Endpoint, Network, and Cloud Security

[Hardening standard, encryption, segmentation, backups, secrets, physical controls, and cloud responsibility split.]

7. Logging, Monitoring, and Detection

[Log sources, retention, time synchronization, alert ownership, triage SLA, and evidence preservation.]

8. Incident Response and Breach Notification

[Severity levels, contact tree, containment, forensics, regulator/customer notice, lessons learned, and tabletop cadence.]

9. Supplier and Third-Party Security

[Due diligence, contractual controls, subprocessor oversight, access review, and offboarding.]

10. Business Continuity and Recovery

[Recovery objectives, restore tests, dependencies, crisis command, and alternate operations.]

11. Training, Exceptions, and Review

[Training frequency, policy exception route, control evidence, audit, and review date.]

Exceptions, Enforcement, and Review

• Exception authority: [Role authorized to approve a documented exception]
• Required evidence: [Risk assessment, compensating control, owner, and expiry date]
• Enforcement: [Investigation and proportionate consequence process]
• Review trigger: [Scheduled cadence and events requiring an earlier review]

Implementation notice: Adapt this policy to applicable law, contracts, workforce consultation duties, systems, and operating context before adoption.