Information Security Policy

information-security.md·SOC 2 · CC1.1

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What's in the policy

The umbrella policy that states your security objectives, scope, and who is accountable for them.

✓Purpose, scope, and applicability

✓Security objectives and guiding principles

✓Roles and accountability, including the policy owner

✓Risk management approach

✓Policy hierarchy and how the other documents relate

✓Exceptions, enforcement, and annual review

Mapped toSOC 2 (CC1.1)ISO 27001 (A.5.1)NIST CSFHIPAA

What the document actually says

These are the standing requirements every generated copy of the document is written from — the clause text itself, not a description of it. The document you receive is drafted on top of them: it expands on them and fills the current-state detail from your intake, and the generator is instructed to keep them, to state them fully, and never to claim a certification or invent a fact you did not supply.

The principles every subordinate policy is read against

… - Defense in depth. Security is layered across people, process, and technology so that no single control failure results in compromise. … - Risk-based prioritization. Controls are applied in proportion to the sensitivity of the asset and the likelihood and impact of the threat. - Accountability. Every asset and control has a named owner; security is a shared responsibility of all personnel.

SOC 2 CC1.1 · ISO 27001 Clause 5.2 — the standing principles the rest of the policy set is interpreted through, including the one that puts a named owner on every asset and every control.

Who runs the program, and how risk gets recorded

…maintains a documented information security program overseen by the document owner named above. The program includes a policy set (this policy and its subordinate policies), a risk management process, security awareness training, and periodic internal review. Management reviews the state of the program, open risks, and significant incidents at least quarterly. … Risks to information assets are identified, analyzed (by likelihood and impact), and treated (mitigate, transfer, avoid, or formally accept). A risk register is maintained and reviewed at least annually and upon significant change. Accepted risks are approved by management and time-bound.

SOC 2 CC1.5/CC3.2 · ISO 27001 Clause 5.1, 6.1.2 — a management review on a quarterly clock, and a register where an accepted risk is signed off and expires instead of sitting open indefinitely.

The subordinate policies this document governs

This policy is implemented through the following subordinate policies, each of which sets specific, prescriptive requirements: - Access Control Policy - Data Handling Policy - Cryptography / Encryption standards (within Data Handling) - Vulnerability Management Policy - Secure SDLC Policy and Change Management Policy - Incident Response Policy - Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Policy - Vendor Management Policy - Acceptable Use Policy

SOC 2 CC5.3 · ISO 27001 A.5.1 — the hierarchy printed as a list, so a reviewer can see which document is meant to answer which question, and notice the one you have not written yet.

AWS + Okta + Datadog

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Placeholder

Primary authentication: To be confirmed. Multi-factor authentication: To be confirmed. Encryption: To be confirmed. Logging & monitoring: To be confirmed. Hosting / infrastructure: To be confirmed.

Resolved

Primary authentication: Okta as the identity provider for the AWS Organization and every SaaS console. Multi-factor authentication: required on every Okta sign-in, hardware keys for administrators. Encryption: KMS-managed keys at rest, TLS in transit. Logging & monitoring: Datadog with CloudTrail. Hosting / infrastructure: AWS eu-west-1, containers on ECS.

What the auditor asks for alongside it

The whole policy set this document claims to govern, not only this document.

The policy pack. Every file the control-domains clause names is written in the same run, with encryption standards landing inside Data Handling exactly as that clause says — so the hierarchy is a stack of documents you can hand over, not a promise.

The risk register, with owners, treatment decisions, and an expiry on anything accepted.

The register stays yours; this policy fixes the method — identify, analyse by likelihood and impact, then mitigate, transfer, avoid or formally accept. The penetration test report fills the first rows: each finding is filed under a severity, carries a remediation line when one was written, and, where the AI overlay adds one, a business-impact line to weigh it by.

Who completed security awareness training, on what date, and covering what.

Your HR or learning system holds the roster; this policy is the standard it gets measured against — training at onboarding and at least annually after, covering phishing and social engineering, credential hygiene, data handling, and incident reporting, plus role-specific work such as secure coding.

A questionnaire row asking whether documented security policies exist at all.

The drafted questionnaire answers. That question routes to the policy set rather than a blank field, and every draft comes back as four fields — the answer, an evidence source, a confidence rating, and a review flag — so the ones a human still has to check are separable from the rest.

Where these documents go stale

A master policy is the last document anyone edits and the first one a reviewer opens, and it decays by delegation. The subordinate list is where it starts: adopt an AI governance policy, fold a standalone encryption standard into another document, split change management out of the SDLC one, and the hierarchy section still describes the set you had a year ago. Then the named document owner moves on, and the sentence promising a quarterly management review outlives the meeting it describes. The register fills with accepted risks that nobody re-approved or let expire. None of that changes a word on the page. What re-validates it is actually holding the review this policy commits to, minuting it, and reading the subordinate list against the documents that exist. Regenerate when the owner or the policy set changes.

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Information Security Policy, answered

What is an information security policy?

An information security policy is the top-level document stating an organization's security objectives, the scope they cover, who is accountable for them, and how every other security policy hangs beneath it. Reviewers open it first, because it tells them whether the rest of the policy set is governed by anything at all.

What should an information security policy include?

A complete one carries purpose and scope, the guiding principles the other documents are interpreted through, a named owner, the governance rhythm that keeps the program under review, a risk method with a register behind it, the list of subordinate policies, and a security awareness training requirement.

Is an information security policy required for SOC 2 and ISO 27001?

Both expect one. ISO 27001 makes a management-approved information security policy an explicit requirement of Clause 5.2, and the SOC 2 CC1 criteria look for evidence that leadership set direction and holds people accountable for it. A stack of topic policies with nothing above them is a routine finding.

Who should own the information security policy?

One named person, senior enough to approve an exception and fund the work it implies — at a startup usually the CTO, a head of engineering, or a security lead. This document gives that owner the whole program, not just the file: the policy set, the risk process, the training, and the internal review all sit under them.

Do we need a separate policy for every control domain?

No. Several domains are sections rather than files: risk assessment and security awareness training are both numbered sections of this master policy, and encryption standards are generated inside Data Handling. Reviewers want every domain covered somewhere and a top-level document that says where, not a matching file count.

How often does the security program have to be reviewed?

At least quarterly. This document puts management on the hook four times a year, not once at audit time: the program's condition, every risk still open, and any incident that mattered. The register beside it is where acceptance gets recorded — management-approved and time-bound, so a risk you chose to live with expires rather than becoming permanent.

How does Pentest Today generate the policy?

Answer a short intake about your stack and we generate a tailored draft — not a blank template — pre-mapped to the controls your framework requires. You review, edit, and export it.

Can I edit the generated policy?

Yes. Every document is a starting draft you can edit, brand, and export. It's written to be review-ready but stays fully under your control.

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