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IT policy management with PolicyMatter
Closing the security loop - why IT policy management demands much more than filtering and blocking
Authenticating, blocking, quarantining. All of them key parts of an IT security strategy. All of them frequently implemented. So why is it that an equally essential part of IT policy management - ensuring staff have understood and signed up to policies - is often so poorly addressed?
Effective IT policy management makes many demands:
- IT policy management must reflect the organisation’s strategic goals
- IT policy management should embody the corporate culture
- IT policy management is not just about enforcing but communicating policy
- the communication element of IT policy management demands much more than posting policy to an Intranet or being buried in a handbook
- IT policy management is a key requirement of ISO 17799
What this adds up to is that IT policy management is about business efficiency and IT policy management is about compliance.
Hence PolicyMatter as an intrinsic part of achieving real IT policy management. PolicyMatter ensures staff read policy, show they’ve understood it, and lets managers responsible for IT policy management run audit trails tracking acceptance across the organisation.
As it evolves, PolicyMatter also minimizes longer term IT policy management costs by automating changes and re-presenting the Internet policy on a regular basis if required. And to complete the IT policy management loop, PolicyMatter integrates with leading security filters to make sure the policy is being enforced as well as communicated.
Real IT policy management benefits with PolicyMatter
- clear, effective presentation of policies
- ability to ensure staff read, understand and accept policy
- detailed management reporting and audit trails
- full, automated IT policy management through the whole life-cycle of the policy
- demonstrable compliance with ISO 17799 IT policy management
PolicyMatter: helping customers improve IT policy management in finance, the public sector, manaufacturing, retail and service industries. To find out more, take a closer look at our policy management software.