Policies & Security
Flagstaff Tech Net can help your business strategize the best solutions to technology challenges. Having plans and protocols in place can help you survive in a fierce competitive environment where system downtime or disaster could be just around the corner.
We can help you draft policies specific to your company on many aspects of maintaining a resilient infrastructure and a trained workforce.
Are you trying to compete for lucrative state and federal contracts that require adherence to assorted security standards and privacy policies, and audit or regulatory review? If so, we can help you implement and document adherence to the government’s requirements and cybersecurity insurance purposes.
Below are some common policies, preparedness playbooks, and assessments we see used at successful businesses when they acquire government contracts. We can help you develop these in short order.
Policy Development
- Acceptable Use Policy for Employees and Vendors
- Establishes acceptable practices regarding the use of information to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information created, collected, and maintained.
- Asset Management Policy:
- Establishes the rules for the control of hardware, software, applications, and information and information used by the company: hardware, software, applications, and data, etc.
- Awareness Training and Personnel Security Policy
- Ensures that all personnel with access to Information Resources are adequately vetted, qualified, and trained according to their role.
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Policy
- Establishes direction and general rules for the creation, implementation, and management of the Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan.
- Change Management Policy
- Establishes the rules for the creation, evaluation, implementation, and tracking of changes made to information resources.
- Data Encryption Policy
- Establishes the rules for acceptable use of encryption technologies relating to information resources.
- Identity and Access Management (IAM) Policy
- Establishes the requirements necessary to ensure that access to and use of information resources is managed in accordance with business requirements, information security requirements, and other policies and procedures.
- Incident Response (IR) Policy
- Establishes the roles and duties of personnel in responding to security incidents.
- Information Classification and Management
- Establishes a system for classifying and managing information resources according to the risks associated with its storage, processing, transmission, and destruction.
- Information Security Policy
- Establishes the framework from which other information security policies may be developed to ensure that the enterprise can efficiently and effectively manage, control, and protect its business information assets and those information assets entrusted to the company by its stakeholders, partners, customers, and other third parties.
- IT Audit Policy
- Establishes the requirements for conducting audit-related reviews of information security resources by the company.
- Network Management Policy
- Establishes the rules for the maintenance, expansion, and use of the network infrastructure.
- Payment Card Industry (PCI) Policy
- Establishes the rules for the protection of the cardholder data environment.
- Physical Security Policy
- Establishes the rules for the granting, control, monitoring, and removal of physical access to company information resource facilities.
- Remote Work Policy
- Establishes the rules and conditions under which short and long-term telecommuting may occur to maintain acceptable practices regarding the use and protection of company information resources.
- Risk Management Policy
- Establishes the requirements for the assessment and treatment of information security-related risks facing the company.
- System Development and Procurement Policy
- Establishes the rules for evaluating, developing, and/or deploying information resources.
- Vendor Management Policy
- Describes the actions and behaviors required to ensure that due care is taken to avoid inappropriate risks to the company, its business partners, and its stakeholders from any of its vendors.
- Vulnerability Management Policy
- Establishes the rules for the review, evaluation, application, and verification of system updates to mitigate vulnerabilities in the IT environment and the risks associated with them.
Security Response
How-To Playbooks
In anticipation of your business ever being compromised by an attacker we can work with you ahead of time to have a proactive plan for a precision response to the compromise. Being either a small or large business does not protect you from being compromised. There is NO perfect security! We can help you implement a ‘defense in depth’ solution according to your risk tolerances. History shows that how you respond to the incident will indicate your survivability.
- Business Email Compromise Response
- Compromised User Credentials Response
- Fire, Flood and Other Natural Disaster Response
- Lost or Stolen Laptop Response
- Malware Incident Response
- Ransomware Response
- Website Application Attack Response
Security Assessments
We can conduct pre- and post-assessments of your business preparedness for several security threats. These are commonly requested by other business partners or government agencies.
- Ransomware Preparedness Assessment
- Vendor Risk Management Assessment
If you would like to discuss the use of any of these resources with us, please don’t hesitate to contact us at 928-224-9462. If you would like to discuss the assessment in more detail during a no-cost one-hour consultation please complete the form below we’ll get back to you within 24 hours.
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