Cyber Security Policies
Security Policies
Security Policies
Security policies are a formal set of rules which is issued by an organization to ensure that the user who are authorized to access company technology and information assets comply with rules and guidelines related to the security of information.
Need of Security Policies
It increases efficiency
- The policy should inform the employees about their individual duties, and telling them what they can do and what they cannot do with the organization sensitive information.
Upholds discipline and accountability
- The organization policies act as a contract which proves that an organization has taken steps to protect its intellectual property, as well as its customers and clients.
Can make or break a business deal
- It is not necessary for companies to provide a copy of their information security policy to other vendors during a business deal that involves the transference of their sensitive information.
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Helps to educate employees on security literacy
- It involves on choosing the right passwords, to providing guidelines for file transfers and data storage which increases employee's overall awareness of security and how it can be strengthened.
- Use security policies to manage our network security. Most types of security policies are automatically created during the installation.
There are some important cyber security policies recommendations describe below :
1. Virus and Spyware Protection policy
- This policy provides the following protection:
- It helps to detect, removes, and repairs the side effects of viruses and security risks by using signatures.
- It helps to detect the threats in the files which the users try to download by using reputation data from Download Insight.
- It helps to detect the applications that exhibit suspicious behavior by using SONAR heuristics and reputation data.
2. Firewall Policy
- This policy provides the following protection:
- It blocks the unauthorized users from accessing the systems and networks that connect to the Internet.
- It detects the attacks by cybercriminals.
- It removes the unwanted sources of network traffic.
3. Intrusion Prevention policy
- It checks the contents of one or more data packages and detects malware which is coming through legal ways.
4. Live Update policy
- The Live Update policy contains the setting which determines when and how client computers download the content updates from Live Update.
5. Application and Device Control
- This policy protects a system's resources from applications and manages the peripheral devices that can attach to a system.
6. Exceptions policy
7. Host Integrity policy
- This policy requires that the client system must have installed antivirus.