Having just gone/going though in another University, I hope this will help. We have suggested an information security policy as the "top" information policy backed up by our version of the PIP. I'd then expect a load of other policies to support them both (e.g. records managment, techncial policies etc etc). Note - we've come to the conclusion that no policy should be more than two pages long, but the associated guidence may well be much longer than that. It is a similar approach to that used in H & S.
Mind you, I'm well aware that what works or is being tried in one University might not suit another.
Tony
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I would say that neither of these policies is what I would term a "master policy"
Data Protection has many of the facets of Information Security embedded within it it. Examples are a Data Destruction Policy - very much required - and the additional security that must surround sensitive data. yet InfoSec is not a subset of Data Protection, nor is Data Protection, because of the privacy element, a subset of InfoSec.
Instead these are two parallel and often intersecting areas where each policy and set of sub-policies must relate to the other stream, and where some policies - Data Destruction - need only exist in one or the other, but be referred to as part of each.
Your mileage may vary, of course, but my belief is that the overall policy is the Human Resources Policy that covers disciplinary action against workers who break either (any) of the other policies
On 18 Nov 2009, at 15:42, Barlow, Jackie wrote:
Dear colleagues,
I am fairly new to the role of Records Manager here at Anglia Ruskin and I
have recently revised our Data Protection Policy. Our Information Security
Policy is also currently being revised and I am unsure which of these
policies should be the overarching one.
I would be grateful for your opinions on this and any information on your
current practices.
Kind regards
Jackie
Jacqueline Barlow ACIB MBA
University Records Manager
Anglia Ruskin University
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