A report on Acceptable Usage Policy: what corporations expect of it, a case study, and a framework for creating your own policy.

Proxy based system to aid in implementing employee internet use policies.

Knowing how and what to protect and what controls to put in place is difficult. It takes security management, including planning, policy development and the design of procedures.

A strong web Security Policy is key to keeping your company safe in the net-centric world. (PDF format)

20th NISSC Internet Technical Security Policy Panel

Unofficial / unverified article describing Canada's export controls on cryptographic software.

International user group and hub for CobiT, the emerging IT control and security methodology.

Provides details of this US government scheme.

Formal IT security policy helps establish standards for IT resource protection by assigning program management responsibilities and providing basic rules, guidelines, and definitions for everyone in the organization. Policy thus helps prevent inconsistencies that can introduce risks, and policy serves as a basis for the enforcement of more detailed rules and procedures.

Discussion of what should go into the creation of an intrusion detection plan and the expected results.

[Word Document] This paper represents the security issues related to the use of wireless (vs wired) LAN technology and recommends a number of key implementation guidelines to ensure the secure deployment of wireless LAN services in the company.

Generally Accepted System Security Principles, developed by The International Information Security Foundation.

[Word Document] Invest the time up front to carefully develop sound policies and then identify ways to gauge their effectiveness and assess the level of compliance within your organization. Commit to spending the time and resources required to ensure that the policies are kept current and accurately reflect your company's security posture.

An archive website from the Purdue Research Foundation, containing a range of example security policy sets.

A guide to computer and network security with a strong focus on writing and implementing security policy. This is primarily for security managers and system administrators.

IT World article - essentially a review of Pentasafe's VigilEnt security policy management product.

Make and manage security policies. Run awareness programs with audits and e-learning to build a human firewall.

Security standards are needed by organizations because of the amount of information, the value of the information, and ease with which the information can be manipulated or moved.

Non-profit, international research initiative dedicated to defining standards in security testing and business integrity testing.

How to write an effective network security policy. This is Part 4 of a 5 part tutorial on Internet and network security.

How to create and publish your company's platform for privacy performance policy, a W3C initiative, in 6 steps.

Information hub for the enterprise discussing network security, storage compliance, CRM, and human resource.

A widely used, peer-reviewed, methodology for performing security tests.

Principles behind the W3C Platform for Privacy Preferences initiative.

InfoWorld article - It's easy to develop e-mail and Internet policies, but education and documentation are crucial to their success.

a guide to developing computer security policies and procedures for sites that have systems on the Internet. Published 1997.

Assess your company's Return on Information Security Investment

Various articles and white papers regarding information systems security

Information portal with focus on policies, protocols and standards

A substantial collection of papers and articles on the development and implementation of security policies.

This paper outlines some issues that the writer of a Site Computer Security Policy may need to consider when formulating such a document.

A security policy is a set of rules written in general terms stating what is permitted and what is not permitted in a system during normal operation.

This paper is intended to address the importance of having a written and enforceable Information Technology (IT) security policy, and to provide an overview of the necessary components of an effective policy.

It has produced the standard to provide guidelines on all aspects of information security including IT, data, and computer controls.

Security standards, transactions and code set standards, identifier standards, mailing lists, implementation guides, and administrative simplification.

This paper focuses on providing the reader with an overview of the current virus landscape and aids in developing best practice anti-virus policies.

Security does not come from automated applications, rather it is compromised of security applications or systems, processes and procedures and the personnel to implement both the systems and processes. In order to properly address security, the most fundamental item necessary is a security policy.

If your company doesn't have written security policies, it's time it did, and Mark Edwards has some resources to help.

Objective analysis reveals that many breaches are linked to common weaknesses in the security policy...accidents waiting to happen. This article focuses on strategic and systematic weaknesses that can slowly degrade security operations.

The use of Group Policy to simplify the network security tasks that you face as a network administrator. With Group Policy, you can ensure that the machines on your network remain in a secure configuration after you deploy them.

This paper offers wide ranging advice on the development and implementation of security policies.