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Four Strategies for Designing an Effective Security Policy

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BharatMalviya
Four Strategies for Designing an Effective Security Policy

Organizations should take a comprehensive approach to implement a truly effective security policy, which includes gaining upper management support, ensuring end users are on board and understand the importance of adhering to security policies, providing continuous education, and enforcing policies aggressively.


While security tooling and processes are becoming increasingly automated, maintaining a strong posture still necessitates human awareness, intelligence, and agility.


Businesses can begin to notice patterns of dangerous conduct by increasing security awareness through administrative controls. Businesses can then generalize and adapt to new threats quicker than security firms can develop software to counteract them.


Concentrate on the most important issues

Too frequently, security leaders and teams get caught up in trying to cover every situation or circumstance as a matter of policy. This is one of the reasons why organizations wind up with voluminous, complex, and tedious documentation that people, at best, skim.


Draw attention to what and why


When it comes to policy writing, there’s a lot of “do this, don’t do that” advice. That is necessary, yet it is insufficient. Explain what and why. The ‘what’ is to satisfy an employee’s rational thinking while also providing direction to the company. They are energized and motivated by the ‘why.’ Businesses require both for safe behavior.



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