Acceptable Use
What is Acceptable Use?
The agreed-upon rules governing how users may utilize an organization's IT resources, including internet, email, and software.
Terms that appear alongside acceptable use
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as acceptable use. The number is how many controls name both.
- policy 14 shared controls
- asset management 8 shared controls
- nist 6 shared controls
- incident response 5 shared controls
- access control 5 shared controls
- governance 5 shared controls
- information security 5 shared controls
- audit 4 shared controls
Frameworks that govern acceptable use
What the standards actually require on acceptable use
Requirements naming acceptable use across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Security awareness training includes acceptable use of end-user technologies in accordance with the entity's policies.
12.6.3.2 · Training on acceptable use of end-user technologies →Document, communicate and issue acceptable use and safe handling instructions spanning approval for acquisition through disposal, classification and labelling, secure configuration, software versions and patching, unsupported software, installation restriction...
C5-AM-02 · Acceptable Use and Safe Handling of Assets Policy →Set up acceptable use policies that outline the boundaries for interacting with AI systems.
AIGE-SI-4 · Acceptable use policies →Define in policy what use of organisation-owned or managed assets is acceptable and under what conditions, and review that policy at least annually.
CCM-HRS-02 · Acceptable Use of Technology Policy and Procedures →Requires rules for acceptable use, and procedures for handling information and its associated assets, to be identified, documented and put into effect.
iso-27002-2022::5.10 · Acceptable use of information and other associated assets →Acceptable use of assets. Control from ISO 27043 framework, domain: ISO 27043: Asset Management.
ISO27043-07 · Acceptable use of assets →Questions people ask about acceptable use
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