The accelerated adoption of Working from Home practices in 2020 has seen numerous IT teams and service providers rise fantastically to the challenge of making systems and data more available to higher numbers of remote users. For many organisations the Remote Access Policy is now an increasingly important element of their overall security posture. To cater for today’s rapidly changing […]
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A recent assignment we undertook for an unnamed organisation (we’ll call them Demonstration City Council (DCC) for the purposes of this article) required us to review and conduct a gap analysis of their existing IT policy material. In doing the analysis the most obvious gaps we identified were that DCC did not have any IT policies written for heads of department, team […]
Read morePosted by Steve Macmillan on October 30, 2019
We are pleased to announce the release of IT Policy System Version 19 which will ship as of November 1st to UK customers on support and maintenance contracts. New additions and enhancements being delivered in Version 19 are: Mapping of policy content to align with the Cyber Essential Plus requirements. A new introductory video is incorporated in the IT Policy System which […]
Read morePosted by Steve Macmillan on September 10, 2019
Eliminating Confusion A recent IT security policies gap analysis exercise we were asked to undertake for a client highlighted how frequently policies and procedures can get confused. After finishing the analysis our report identified that the client had a selection of well written procedural documents, a small number of policy documents and then some documents that contained a combination of […]
Read morePosted by Steve Macmillan on February 7, 2019
Organisations provide access to their valuable assets such as vehicles, machinery and building facilities. In doing so it is expected that the management and staff are fully briefed to understand the terms of use, health and safety considerations and in some cases complete operator training. However, the same level of expectation is often not well detailed for management and staff […]
Read morePosted by Steve Macmillan on July 25, 2018
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