Information Security Program Guide

Every organization needs to implement an information security program to protect their company's data and proprietary information. Having a guide to follow cuts costs, time, and headaches all while establishing a systematic framework that can be utilized to drive secure processes through your organizations business processes. This guide can be used to build a (NIST CSF) National Institute of Standards Cyber Security Framework; IT Security Program for any organization.

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This book comes with access to a digital downloadable version in word format that allows you to customize these Information Security Policies and Procedures to fit the need of any organization. These procedures will assist you in developing the best fitting security practices as it aligns to your organizations business operations across the enterprise! Comprehensive customizable documentation used for implementing an Information Security Policy, Departmental Information Security Procedures, and IT Standard Configuration Guidelines for your IT assets in any organization.

Your Information Security Policies and Procedures drive the security practices of your organizations critical business functions. This book will show you how to setup your NIST CSF Based Cyber Security Policies and Departmental procedures that will ensure effective security workflows are used across each departments day to day activities. The Information Security Policy defines the boundaries for your organization and should have board level approval. These policies define how your organization wants to govern the business operations. For any policy the organization does not meet today, a corrective action plan should be developed defining milestones and completion time frames.

Departmental Procedures map to the organizations Information Security Policy and define what that means within the standard business operations for the departments (Business Units) covering your enterprise. If a policy can not be meet due to business requirements, document the exception and request approval if needed.

Developing the IT Standard Configuration Guidelines document will set the baseline requirements for any new and existing assets, solutions, it infrastructure used by your organization. These configuration guidelines are broken into 5 categories and assist you in setting best practice guidelines for your organization. Application-Database-Desktop-Network-Server