Building Effective, Tailored Information Security Policy
20th NISSC Internet Technical Security Policy Panel

Email Policy.com
Learn how to create a company e-mail policy and enforce it using email security software. Also lists sample email policies, books and links.

Computer and Information Security Policy
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.

IT Security Cookbook
An excellent guide to computer & network security with a strong focus on writing and implementing security policy. This is primarily for security managers and system administrators.

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

Enhancing Enterprise Security
This is a solid site with a good overview of all factors which should go into to the design of a security policy.

CERT Practice Modules: Securing Desktop Workstations
Develop and promulgate an acceptable use policy for workstations.

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

CERT Practice Modules: Improving Security
Determine contractor ability to comply with your organization's security policy.

Make Your Web Site P3P Compliant
How to create and publish your company's platform for privacy performance policy, a W3C initiative, in 6 steps.

Information Security Program Development
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.

CERT Practice Modules: Responding to Intrusions
Establish policies and procedures for responding to intrusions.

Structured Approach to Computer Security
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.

World of Information Security Management
This site contains information on BS 7799 (ISO/IEC 17799) including the official Register of BS 7799 Certificates, International BS 7799 User Group, papers on the application of BS 7799 produced by business around the world.

Create Order with a Strong Policy
A well-written, well-run security policy keeps cracks from appearing in your network's foundation.

Do you have an intrusion detection response plan?
Discussion of what should go into the creation of an intrusion detection plan and the expected results.

P3P Guiding Principles
Principles behind the W3C Platform for Privacy Preferences initiative.

Windows 2000 Group Policy and Security
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.

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

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

Best Practices in Network Security
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.

Internet Security Policy: A Technical Guide - Contents
This document is intended to help an organization create a coherent Internet-specific information security policy.

ITworld.com - Security's human side
IT World article - essentially a review of Pentasafe's VigilEnt security policy management product.

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

PKI Policy Whitepaper
Provides general information about PKI policy, the role that policy plays in a PKI and how that policy applies to both traditional and PKI-enabled business environments.

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

E-Policy
E-policy is a corporate statement and set-of-rules to protect the organization from casual or intentional abuse that could result in the release of sensitive information, IT system failures or litigation against the organization by employees or other parties.

What makes a good security policy and why is one necessary?
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.

Formulating a Wireless LAN Security Policy: Relevant Issues, Considerations and Implications
[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.

How to Develop Good Security Policies and Tips on Assessment and Enforcement
[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.

The Basics of an IT Security Policy
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.

Implementing an Encryption Policy for the Mac OS X User
This paper provides the derivation and implementation of a security policy for Mac OS X users.

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

Developing an Information Security Strategy
This whitepaper describes the steps needed to develop an organization-wide information security strategy.

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

Building and Implementing a Successful Information Security Policy
White paper providing the reader with new and innovative aspects on the process of building a Security Policy, as well as managing a Security Awareness Program.

Institute for Security and Open Methodologies (ISECOM)
Non-profit, international research initiative dedicated to defining standards in security testing and business integrity testing.

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

OSSTMM: Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual
A widely used, peer-reviewed, comprehensive methodology for performing security tests.

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

SANS InfoSec Reading Room
Articles on security policy and other infosec topics.

An Overview of Corporate Computer User Policy
Article discusses the elements of a corporate security policy, which it calls the gateway to a company`s intellectual property. The main threat to information security within a company is its employees.

Aelita Enterprise Directory Manager
Secure "Rules and Roles" management platform that facilitates secure Exchange and Active Directory administration.

How to Develop a Network Security Policy White Paper
This document is for business executives, and others, who want to know more about Internet and internetworking security, and what measures you can take to protect your site.

RFC2196 (Site Security Handbook)
a guide to developing computer security policies and procedures for sites that have systems on the Internet. Published 1997.

Why Security Policies Fail
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.

Understanding the Virus Threat and Developing Effective Anti-Virus Policy
This paper focuses on providing the reader with an overview of the current virus landscape and aids in developing best practice anti-virus policies.

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