An IT Security Framework should address everything needed to reduce risk throughout your IT environment. But the challenges of putting together a successful framework are formidable and include:

• No awareness that compliance law mandates these policies and procedures be documented
• Lack of a governance committee and defined decision-making process needed to develop and implement policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines
• No linkage between risk management and mitigation with new or existing policies, procedures, and guidelines
• Gaps in workforce education on new or existing policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines
• A disconnect between configuration change management and maintaining IT infrastructure integrity

We follow a proven, well-defined approach and methodology:

• Determine compliance law requirements to set up required organizational policies and operational procedures
• Organize required policies and procedures based on a typical IT infrastructure model that includes User, Workstation, LAN, LAN-to-WAN, WAN, Remote Access, System / Application
• Design the Policy Framework based on all known risks, threats, and vulnerabilities
• Document the required IT security policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines
• Develop an implementation and training plan for the adoption of new policies and procedures

Setting up an IT Security Policy Framework is a big challenge. Your DataLink security and compliance team can help get your IT Security where it needs to be. Contact us at 410.729.0440 or sales@DataLinkTech.com.