Govern / Information Security Policies
Security policies that reflect how your organisation actually works.
We help growing organisations put practical information security policies and processes in place — aligned with their technology, working practices and the controls they actually use.
Talk to usPolicies should describe reality.
Security policies are most useful when they describe how an organisation genuinely protects its information and how people are expected to work.
We develop policies alongside the technical environment, so requirements around authentication, devices, updates, access and security correspond with controls that can actually be implemented and maintained.
The result is a practical set of policies that your organisation can use — rather than documents that exist only to satisfy a questionnaire.
A practical policy foundation.
The exact policies depend on your organisation, but a typical foundation covers the areas needed to establish clear responsibilities and consistent security practices.
Information security
Establish the overall principles for protecting your organisation's systems, information and services.
Identity & access
Define how accounts, authentication, privileged access and access to company resources should be managed.
Devices & working practices
Set clear expectations for company and personal devices, remote working, software, updates and acceptable use.
Operational security
Document practical processes around vulnerabilities, incidents, backups, suppliers and people joining, moving within or leaving the organisation.
Policy and technology, working together.
If a policy says multi-factor authentication is required, the technical environment should enforce it. If devices must meet particular security requirements, those requirements should be reflected in the way devices are configured and managed.
This is why our governance work fits naturally alongside our Microsoft 365 security baseline. Technical controls and written policies can be developed together, with each supporting the other.
Already have policies?
You don't necessarily need to replace them. We can review existing policies against your current environment and working practices, identify gaps and help bring the two into alignment.
That can be particularly useful where policies have grown over time, come from different sources, or no longer accurately describe the controls your organisation has in place.
Built for what comes next
Governance you can build on.
Practical security policies are useful in their own right. They also provide the governance foundation needed when customers, auditors or compliance requirements ask you to demonstrate how information security is managed.
Combined with appropriate technical controls, they can support the next step towards Cyber Essentials and other security or compliance requirements.
Talk to us about security policies