The right step forward:
IT Security Policies that everyone can follow
Does your staff bend the rules to "better accomplish tasks"?
Use these templates to build a positive and effective cybersecurity culture with clear security measures that address daily real-life challenges your employees have to deal with now.
- Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Policy
- Information Security Program
- Incident Response Plan
How these templates help
- Ready-to-use documents that gather best practices and regulations
- Policies written with regulatory requirements in mind
- Instructions to help customize the templates to match your needs
- Just download the template and use it
- Practical IT Security Policies ready in less than an hour!
What are IT Security Policies, and why do you need them?
IT Security Policies FAQs
Q: How can IT Security Policies reduce the risk of unwanted events?
Rules are essential for creating effective compliance programs in addition to being valuable for codifying healthy business practices. Without them, your program is ineffective. Well-defined policies and processes ensure that employee conduct is consistent. Therefore, the risk of incidents will lessen. If the case of compliance, legal, or reputational issues, your organization has defendable standards to point to.
Q: Are these three templates enough to comply with cyber insurance requirements?
Not really. Depending on your industry, your organization could require more IT Security Policies to achieve compliance objectives, identify anomalies, and hold employees accountable. This package aims to get you started. Additional resources might be necessary to build a strong culture within your organization and comply with the high cybersecurity standards required by insurance companies.
Q: We already have policies. Why should I update them?
Business operations change to keep up with new tools and market trends, and your staff is often forced to ignore security policies. The pandemic has forced organizations to embrace new trends faster than ever before. Your policies and procedures become ineffective if they don't reflect these changes.
Q: Are these templates industry-specific?
These templates aim to support SMEs across multiple industries, including generic best practices and standards in line with the Canadian standards. They can still help compliance and audit teams identify operations that don’t match internal standards.
Q: Who must comply with these policies?
Every staff member, collaborator, and business partner using your organization's resources and having access to systems must be presented with a copy of these documents and observe all the rules and regulatory requirements.
Q: How do I customize the templates?
Every template comes with blanks where you must introduce company-specific details. Every space has instructions around what that paragraph or sentence should include. Additional modifications might be required inside the IT Policy documents if the guidelines aren’t clear enough for your industry.