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Security involves people as well
as systems. Polar Cove works with each client to develop an effective,
responsive security policy. The results: Management is ensured that
employees pose fewer security risks. Infrastructure management improves.
Risks to customer trust and loyalty are enhanced. Infrastructure
operates more efficiently.
Polar Cove’s policy evaluates
each client’s requirements for security policy. Some of these
requirements are organization-specific. Others may involve compliance,
whether legislative or contractual. Still others, such as virus
prevention, reflect good business practices in an Internet environment.
Polar Cove consulting team with
each client’s management and operational staff to develop
plans that are based on “best practices” from industry
standards for security in organization, personnel, physical controls,
asset classification and control, network and computer management,
application development, and compliance. At a minimum, the security
policy that is developed includes:
- Defining information security clearly and providing a statement
of management’s security standards.
- Describing specific security requirements, such as:
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compliance with legislative and contractual
requirements,
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education, detection, and prevention,
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standards for ensuring business continuity,
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roles and responsibilities,
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processes for reporting suspected security
incidents, and
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maintaining the security policy document
itself.
Policy Consulting Includes:
- Reviewing each client's business and the related
security goals and requirements.
- Assessing current IT strategy and security
concerns, as well as new developing requirements for security
management.
- Comparing and contrasting existing security
strategies to best practice standards and business expectations.
- Providing clear security policies for management and for operational
staff.
Polar Cove delivers security
policy documents for management to use in meeting both industry-wide
and client-specific security practices.
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| You
Should Know... |
As
a result of under-investment in IT security, there is a growing
disconnect between the priority placed on IT security by the
board of directors, and the actual security controls in place.
An example of this is the number of businesses with a security
policy. While this has doubled since 2000, it is still only
27%. A security policy is the most basic discipline in information
security. Yet, nearly three-quarters of busineses have still
not set out their policies in respect of information security
and communicated them across their organization.
Source: UK Department of
Trade and Industry Information Security Breaches Survey
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