How do policies help me protect my business?
Policies are the lifeblood of risk management for any organization. Without policies, people don’t know what they should or shouldn’t do, how they should behave, etc. This leaves your company and its information open to unnecessary exposures. With a good set of policies in place, you ensure your users will take reasonable efforts to help protect the company. You can also demonstrate to your customers what you’re doing to manage risk inside your company (and more and more these days, they’re starting to ask about the protection of these risks). Policies are implemented using 3 key components: The policy itself which outlines the requirement/s, some process or technology to help enforce the policy, and a way of validating the effectiveness of the policy-in other words, is it doing what it’s supposed to be doing? Without all 3 pillars, you’re actually exposing the company in many cases to greater risk. If you just have a policy but do nothing to enforce it, people may think you’re protected when you’re not. If you create a policy and put something in place to enforce it but then don’t validate it periodically, it may stop working or a change may make the policy ineffective, without periodic health checks you may be exposed and never know it until it’s too late.
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How do policies help me protect my business?
Policies are the lifeblood of risk management for any organization. Without policies, people don’t know what they should or shouldn’t do, how they should behave, etc. This leaves your company and its information open to unnecessary exposures. With a good set of policies in place, you ensure your users will take reasonable efforts to help protect the company. You can also demonstrate to your customers what you’re doing to manage risk inside your company (and more and more these days, they’re starting to ask about the protection of these risks). Policies are implemented using 3 key components: The policy itself which outlines the requirement/s, some process or technology to help enforce the policy, and a way of validating the effectiveness of the policy-in other words, is it doing what it’s supposed to be doing? Without all 3 pillars, you’re actually exposing the company in many cases to greater risk. If you just have a policy but do nothing to enforce it, people may think you’re protected when you’re not. If you create a policy and put something in place to enforce it but then don’t validate it periodically, it may stop working or a change may make the policy ineffective, without periodic health checks you may be exposed and never know it until it’s too late.
