Why you may need a Remote Office Security Steps Template
Description
This is a remote home office security policy template to keep home office environment secure and safe.
This template can be tailored by small to medium size businesses (SMB) based on their specific needs and requirements to draft their own remote work secure policy. Also individual user can use this as a manual to verify and validate their home office security controls based on current industry standard.
Purpose
The purpose of this manual is to communicate the security control requirements of your organization to your staff and how shall they maintain a secure work environment in their home offices. This ensures that home office environments are secured to protect staff, their workstations, and their home networks from external threats.
What will you get?
This template describes the steps to verify, configure, create and maintain the security of the home office.
Summary
Your organization platform and the sensitive customer information it contains should be protected with a variety of proactive and reactive security measures and controls. These controls include security of the workstations used by staff, all which are connected at one time or another in remote staff home offices. Security of the staff home office is a key part of the company security program that requires specific security controls for the home office and network. It should be your organization policy that remote home office environments shall be secure and safe. This manual describes the steps to verify, configure, create and maintain the security of the home office.
This template is seven pages long and include the following sections/steps.
1) Summary
2) Purpose
3) Scope
4) Responsibilities
5) Policy Instructions (including password manager setup)
6) Enforcement
Appendix
To easily modify, this template is a Microsoft Word document.
