AM-02 Acceptable Use and Safe Handling of Assets Policy
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, unsupp
4
artefacts
2
held by a system
0
at each review
easy
to go live
SIEM / log platform
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
- Hardening baselines it references for error handling, logging, encryption and authorisation settings · SIEM / log platform
- Device management configuration for installation restrictions, malware protection and remote wipe · Endpoint management (MDM / EDR)
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
none for this control
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Acceptable use and handling standard covering every stage of the asset lifecycle · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- Support lifecycle list showing how products past vendor support are treated · Vendor register / contract repository
First move
Automate the pull from your SIEM / log platform. Retention and alert rules exported from the SIEM; review evidence is the closed-alert record with reviewer and time.
Common gaps auditors find
- Rules written for laptops with nothing said about virtual machines and container images
- No stated treatment for software that has passed end of vendor support
- Disposal described as reformatting rather than irreversible erasure of the data
- Standard approved but never made available to the personnel who handle the assets
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
Build my evidence sheet