Announcements

    PolicyDOC Version 2.4 Beta-3 Available

    April 23, 2010

    PolicyDOC 2.4 Beta Three is available. It has a number of bug fixes and performance enhancement features.

    PolicyDOC Version 2.4 Beta Two Available

    January 14, 2010

    PolicyDOC 2.4 Beta Two is available now for download.

    PolicyDOC Version 2.4 Beta Available

    December 6th, 2009

    We are releasing version 2.4 Beta for beta testers. A release candidate will be released in two weeks.

    New Updates to PolicyDOC

    November 27th, 2009

    Here are new updates made to PolicyDOC.

    • Exceptions report split: There are two new reports – dashboard report and a reports that shows exceptions that are going to expire in future or have already expired.
    • Correcting format of date in one place in policy view.
    • Made a color change in CSS file.

     

    Policy Management: What are appropriate sections in a Policy Template

    November 26th, 2009

    When writing policies for an organization, it is a good practice to build a policy template that all policies follow. When doing research on essential sections in each policy, I came up with the following list.

       1. Scope
       2. Business Objectives
       3. Compliance Objectives, e.g. PCI, SOX, FISMA, etc.
       4. Policy Overview
       5. Policy sections and subsection (This is the main part for policy statements)
       6. Compliance to Policy
       7. Roles and Responsibilities
       8. References
       9. Revision History
      10. Definitions
      11. Appendices

    With a defined template, it becomes much more easy to create consistent policies across the organization. I shall be implementing this template in PolicyDOC (http://www.policydoc.com)

     

    Version 2.3 Available

    November 26th, 2009

    Version 2.3 is release which adds functionality of creating policy sections in the template when a new policy is created. This is to ensure best practice in creating new policies is followed. The default sections in the policy are:

       1. Scope
       2. Business Objectives
       3. Compliance Objectives
       4. Policy Overview
       5. Compliance with policy
       6. Roles and responsibilities
       7. References

    These section can be modified by the policy creator afterwords.