Network security policy examples & procedures

A network security policy delineates guidelines for computer network access, determines policy enforcement, and lays out the architecture of the organization’s network security environment and defines how the security policies are implemented throughout the network architecture.

Network security policies describes an organization’s security controls. It aims to keep malicious users out while also mitigating risky users within your organization. The initial stage to generate a policy is to understand what information and services are available, and to whom, what the potential is for damage, and what protections are already in place.

The security policy should define the policies that will be enforced – this is done by dictating a hierarchy of access permissions – granting users access to only what they need to do their work.

These policies need to be implemented in your organization written security policies and also in your IT infrastructure – your firewall and network controls’ security policies.

Network security policy management refers to how your security policy is designed and enforced. It refers to how firewalls and other devices are managed.

A good IT security policy contains the following essentials:

• Purpose

• Audience

• Information security objective

• Authority and access control policy – This includes your physical security policy

• Data classification

• Data support and operations

• Security awareness and behavior

• Responsibility, rights, and duties

A cyber security policy is part of your overall IT security. A cybersecurity policy defines acceptable cybersecurity procedures. Cybersecurity procedures explain the rules for how anyone with potential network access can access your corporate resources, whether they are in your physical offices, work remotely, or work in another company’s offices (for example, customers and suppliers), send data over networks. They also determine how organization’s manage security patches as part of their patch management policy.

A good cybersecurity policy includes the systems that your business is using to protect your critical information and are already in place, including firewalls. It should align with your network segmentation and micro-segmentation initiatives.

Network policy management tools and solutions, such as the AlgoSec Security Management Solution, are available. Organizations use them to automate tasks, improving accuracy and saving time.

The AlgoSec Security Management Solution simplifies and automates network security policy management to make your enterprise more agile, more secure and more compliant – all the time.

AlgoSec is unique because it manages the entire lifecycle to ensure ongoing, secure connectivity for your business applications.

It automatically builds a network map of your entire hybrid network and can map and intelligently understand your network security policy across your hybrid and multi-vendor network estate. You can auto-discover application connectivity requirements, proactively analyze risk, rapidly plan and execute network security changes and securely decommission firewall rules – all with zero-touch and seamlessly orchestrated across your heterogeneous public or private cloud, and on-premise network environment.