Cybersecurity Policy

As mentioned in a previous article, security begins with governance. Management must indicate its commitment to protecting information, set objectives, and describe the means to be implemented. Traditionally, this is done through a document: the cybersecurity policy.

A cybersecurity policy is a strategic document that defines the rules, procedures, and best practices to protect an organization’s systems, data, and networks against cyber threats. It identifies risks, sets the level of acceptability, and establishes preventive measures. Its role is to guarantee information security and ensure business continuity while raising employee awareness of best practices. For an SME, it is essential to protect its reputation, employees, and customers.

An example of a cybersecurity policy

Our goal in this series of articles is to describe the actions required for a (very) small business to adhere to the CyberFundamentals framework and reach the Small level. This is a starting point that any responsible entity should aim for. We have therefore established a basic cybersecurity policy template that corresponds to this, based on the template published by the Belgian Cybersecurity Center (CCB) for the Basic level, but adapted and simplified.
Most of the time, cybersecurity policies remain fairly general in their formulation and rely on more specific policies for different areas (access policies, data backup, vulnerability management, updates, etc.), described in separate documents. Here, we have chosen to keep it simple and concentrate the description of the measures in a single document. It will therefore be a little longer and more specific than other examples, but it will have the advantage of bringing together all the measures in one place.

You can download this template here.