This policy provides guidelines for the appropriate use of electronic communications. It covers topics such as privacy, confidentiality and security; ensures electronic communications resources are used for appropriate purposes; informs employees regarding the applicability of laws and company policies to electronic communications; and prevents disruptions to and misuse of company electronic communications resources, services and ...

Wearable devices are becoming more common as a result of technological advancements and new capabilities. These devices may exist in the form of clothing, watches or eyewear and can serve as standalone gadgets or may link to another device such as a smartphone, tablet or laptop. This Wearable Device Policy, from TechRepublic Premium, is designed ...

Companies have relied upon data for decades as a means to engage in business practices and achieve operational success, but the relatively new concept of “big data” has grown rapidly over the past few years. Businesses both large and small are leveraging the advantages of big data to ensure relevance and flexibility in today’s ever-changing ...

An organization’s data and information possess tremendous value and must always be safeguarded. This policy from TechRepublic Premium helps ensure an organization’s storage media are properly cleansed and sanitized prior to disposal, recycling or donation. From the policy: When disposing of damaged, unusable, obsolete, off-lease, decommissioned, old, or end-of-service-life equipment and media, the organization requires ...

Whether your enterprise is dealing with a business environment measured on a global scale or one that is confined to the local level, you will always have to deal with people. Changing economic fortunes, social interaction and other factors too many to name can cause stress and, unfortunately, lead to people acting out in inappropriate ...

Employees, data and resources are three of the biggest assets in any given organization. With concepts such as mobility and cloud access becoming nearly ubiquitous, the ability of company staff to protect and recover data and/or resources spread out across disparate environments is especially vital for continued success. This policy from TechRepublic Premium provides guidelines ...

Every enterprise should have a written workplace safety policy. In addition, every enterprise should ensure every employee, third-party contractor and vendor is aware of and in compliance with that policy. This policy from TechRepublic Premium represents consensus best practices based on several HR standard-setting organizations, including the Society for Human Resource Management and the Nonprofit ...

Installation of unauthorized computer programs and software, including files downloaded and accessed on the internet, can easily and quickly introduce unnecessary clutter, system instability or unreliability, and serious security vulnerabilities, all of which might require lengthy support remediation. This policy from TechRepublic Premium is designed to ensure every employee, contractor, temporary worker and volunteer understands ...

Attracting and retaining top talent is a major priority for all companies, large and small. The first part is usually more straightforward than the second. This policy from TechRepublic Premium provides guidelines for conducting useful and appropriate interviews with potential new hires, both from a proper methodology perspective and a legal standpoint. These guidelines will ...

Maximum uptime is often a priority goal for company systems and services in today’s 24/7 year-round society. With that objective in mind, a comprehensive system and service monitoring strategy is an essential component of any technological infrastructure to achieve organizational success. The objective of this policy from TechRepublic Premium is to define what systems and ...

Maintaining a regular schedule of operating system and application updates to company devices or employee-owned devices used to conduct company business — as well as applying critical out-of-band patches as vulnerabilities are discovered — is paramount to maintaining the integrity of corporate security and protecting the business. This policy from TechRepublic Premium provides guidelines for ...

Many computer systems, network devices and other technological hardware used in the enterprise can audit and log various activities. These activities include network traffic, internet access, creating or deleting users, adding users to groups, changing file permissions, transferring files, opening the case, powering off, deleting system logs, and anything else a user, administrator or the ...

All modern enterprises must accept the fact that at some point their systems or networks will very likely experience an unauthorized intrusion of some kind. This is the state of the world’s current security environment and for the most part enterprises, especially well-managed ones, have come to terms with this fate while also doing their ...

Personnel screening involves analyzing the background of company applicants to ensure that they are a creditable fit for the role in which they intend to work. The process may entail analysis of criminal records, credit history, employment/academic verifications, job skills and other criteria. This policy from TechRepublic Premium provides a framework for building a screening ...

Employees who work from home often use company-supplied systems and devices, which helps ensure that they have consistent, state-of-the-art equipment to do their work. However, organizations should provide usage guidelines, such as this policy from TechRepublic Premium, covering the responsibilities of IT staff and employees. From the policy: For an organization to properly implement this ...