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Tools · Security Policy Management

Which security policies are we missing?

Choose your profile, then check each policy topic it needs: is there a document, approved at the right tier, in date, acknowledged and not duplicated? You get a word for each topic and the actions in the order to take them. Free, no account, and nothing is stored.

Question 1 of 5

Part 1 of 4

About your organisation

These decide which questions apply to you.

Your profile

Core: every organisation. Growing: over about 50 people. In-house development adds PT-12 to any profile. Regulated: an NIS2 essential or important entity, or a DORA financial entity.

You can move on with questions unanswered. They are left out, never counted against you. Nothing is saved, so reloading the page starts again.

How this is worked out, and what it is not

  1. Results. Not required: your profile does not need the topic. Missing: no document. Duplicated: two documents overlap (fix this first for the topic, even if other checks fail). Needs work: covers only part of the topic, or one check fails. Covered: a document exists, at the right tier, in date, acknowledged where required and not duplicated. Not answered: a question on a required topic is blank.
  2. Missing documents come first, because a topic with no document has no rule at all: Core topics, then Regulated topics (a legal obligation for regulated entities), then Growing topics.
  3. Then documents that need work or are duplicated, in the same order: Core, Regulated, Growing.
  4. Within each group, topics keep their order in the list (PT-01 first).

Nothing here is scored out of 100 and there is no percentage. Results are in words and counts, and the questions, the levels and the rule are the workbook's: the same answers give the same result in both.

  • This assesses whether the right documents exist and are governed, not whether what they say is good or whether people follow them. A topic can be Covered by a weak policy. Test what the documents say against the Security Policy Document Template, and whether they are followed through audit and the effectiveness assessment (PT-18).
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Policy Coverage Gap Assessment, version 1.1
Questions
18 policy topics · 3 profiles