DSP-01 Security and Privacy Policy and Procedures
Keep approved policies for classifying, protecting and handling data across its whole lifecycle in line with applicable law, standards and assessed risk, and review them at least annually.
4
artefacts
0
held by a system
2
at each review
hard
to go live
Policy repository / GRC workspace
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Annual review record · Document repository
- Evidence of communication to data handling staff · Policy repository / GRC workspace
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- The approved data security and privacy policy with approver and date · Policy repository / GRC workspace
- The lifecycle stages the policy covers, from creation to destruction · Policy repository / GRC workspace
First move
This control is evidenced by people and documents, not systems. Put the document under version control with an owner and review date, and log each review as a record with reviewer and date. Do not try to automate it.
Common gaps auditors find
- Policy covers storage and omits collection, transfer or destruction
- Annual review missed
- Applicable law identified once and not tracked as it changed
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