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Documents, and more documents, and then there are Policies!
Policy Documents are here to stay and must be part of your housekeeping, especially the I.T. department.
Policies are an integral part of your company infrastructure and should be treated as such. I.T. Policies are “living” documents and while this makes this an onerous task of keeping the information up to date, it is absolutely vital that is. The next time you have a computer crash of theft and your documentation is not up to date, you will be down for a lot longer than anticipated, normally to the detriment of the company.
All International companies have stringent audit policies and these include the Sarbanes-Oxley guidelines. These companies normally also get yearly visits from local appointed auditors as well as bi-annual visits from the holding company auditors.
Once these policies are in place and maintained, your company will be able to overcome any catastrophe. I can hear some of you saying, “I do not need policies, my IT guru has everything in his head”. Quite rightly so, however what about the “bus” factor? Tomorrow he steps out into the street and a bus runs him over. Now you are in a situation where your guru is gone, everything was in his head or some sophisticated filing system that no-one else can decipher, and you sit with trying to get your business back up and running in the shortest time possible; time is money so get the policies into place to protect your business!
There are quite a few different policies available, see the list on the left, but your priority must be a Disaster Recovery Plan. Then depending on the size of your business and confidentiality required, a Systems Security and or Electronic Systems Usage policy. These will cover the majority of your business segment and will get you a high score in the next audit.
· Disaster Recovery Plan.
· Systems Security.
· Internet Security.
· Electronic Systems Usage
Policy Documentation; the KEY to your business future!
Andy van Eyk
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