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Four Strategies for Designing an Effective Security Policy

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bharat malviya
Four Strategies for Designing an Effective Security Policy

Organizations must take a comprehensive approach to implement a truly effective security policy, including obtaining upper management support, ensuring end users are on board and understand the importance of following security policies, providing continuing education, and implementing policies. including aggressive enforcement.


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


By increasing security awareness through administrative controls, businesses can begin to notice patterns of dangerous behavior. Businesses can then generalize and adapt to new threats faster than security firms can develop software to counter them.


Here are a few practical approaches that businesses can use to build effective security policies.


Give security policy a K.I.S.S.


Even by IT standards, acronyms and jargon have taken over security. That’s fine among security professionals; for practically everyone else in the organization, it’s not very exciting. The same can be said for any technological subject that approaches complexity. Although most aspects of IT security are not rocket science, the industry is rife with jargon. Businesses should stick to common words and phrases for clarity’s sake.


People will not read or understand policies if they are difficult to read or comprehend. The K.I.S.S. (keep it simple, stupid) philosophy is the best. When organizations begin to establish policies, they must keep in mind that a policy should be a brief statement stating the regulations in plain English. They should be written in such a way that the policy is flexible.



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