[Jason Springer]

One of the critical policies that are needed to ensure a strong security program is a password policy which requires the renewal of passwords after a certain period of time or two-factor authentication for all employees or users. This helps to prevent hackers from stealing important data from the user or employee by not allowing them to keep the same exact password for everything. Another policy that’s critical to strong security is a data backup policy that sets up mandatory data backups to be renewed and stored in another safe location to try and prevent data loss. This data loss can either come from natural causes such as weather or hardware failure or from breaches in the system that try to wipe all the data from a server. These policies should also have a planned interval for reviewing policies, opportunities for improvement, legal consideration, and an owner. The reason these are important is that policies should have some room to grow while still being legal and clear.