Overview
Red Clay Renovations is an highly respected company that is well established. Red Clay Renovations provides excellent and professional services. This policy exist to ensure that Red Clay Renovations systems network is timely and accurate with information dissemination. This policy will apply to all employees, divisions and contractors. This policy will cover all IT resources.
Red Clay Renovations policy for IT will provide notice, expectations and guidelines to all employees who use and manage information technology resources and services. This policy will include and not be limited to computing, networking, communications, telecommunications, infrastructure, hardware, software, data, databases, personnel, procedures, and physical
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All workers and staff that access the company’s IT resources will be subject to this policy and any applicable provisions of the company.
Third party providers that have been contracted for different software will have their policy tied into the company’s IT policy.
Bring Your Own Device Policy (BYOD)
This company will grant its employees the right to use smartphones and tablets that they have purchased at their work station. The BYOD policy is intended to protect the security, integrity of the company's data and technology infrastructure. Limited exceptions may be granted due to variations in devices and their platforms. Employees must agree to the terms and conditions that are set forth in this policy before their devices can be connected to the company's network. The company will reserve the right to revoke this privilege if the employee do not abide by the policies and procedures outlined below.
Acceptable use
Activities that directly or indirectly support the company's business goals.
Reasonable and limited communication or recreation during working hours/
Certain websites will be blocked during working hours while connected to the company's
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Unauthorized disclosure of company information will be subject to legal liability, monetary penalties.
Transfer of software from the company to outside sources is prohibit.
Wiping of electronic devices will ensure that IT resources do not contain confidential information which will allow licensed software to be transferred outside the company for reuse, donation, recycling, or destruction.
This policy will apply to all compact discs (CDs), digital versatile discs (DVDs), Universal Serial Bus (USB drives), zip disks and other diskettes and tapes. All information will be cleaned off of electronic storage media.
Media will be cleaned these methods:
Destruction of media by physical force
Destruction of media by electromagnetic degaussing
Overwriting of all stored data by predetermined pattern such as binary
that help advancement throughout the complete hardware store network can lessen electronic waste contamination. Besides transfer or reusing of hardware can have noteworthy human well-being and environment sways. Gadgets can hold lead, brominated fire retardants, cadmium, mercury, arsenic and an extensive variety of different metals and concoction mixes. In...
Having put these specific guidelines in place the supervisor should work with their boss or corporate office to ensure that the guidelines are
This case study will overlook the legal environment in an organization, which includes policies, regulations, and laws. This case study will go over a brief overview of what policies, regulations, and laws are, their impacts and a quick overview of policies, regulations, and laws that an organization has to be knowledgeable in and on par with to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and information systems are functioning and within guideline.
Recognizing mobile devices are routinely transit between physical locations making them susceptible to compromise, a suggested policy control is to mandate employees sign an agreement permitting remote wiping. The agreement would include a designated timeframe an employee would need to report an incident and stiff penalties for those that do not comply. Although an employee may lose personal data, this measure will ensure the organization is appropriately protected (Fisher & Allen, 2015).
All individuals including employers, self-employed or persons in control of work premises will have duties under the regulations of RIDDOR.
...d a copy can be useful in providing information on their characteristics. This feature applies not only to digital products such as music CDs but also to software with a large number of commands and a large potential number of interactions with other computer components and software, etc.
It has stated that though BYOD (Bring Your Own Devices) improves organizations productivity, effectiveness, and decrease of disbursements, but the misuse of it is what concerns them. While the article listed many disadvantages of BYOD usage, it also mentioned helpful advices and policies to prevent any future security breaches. According to Lannon and Schreiber (2016), “A good policy will take into account the concerns of both the company and its employees. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. What works best for a particular employer will depend on the employer’s business” (para. 9-10). The article concluded that using BYOD could be a beneficial if employers implemented limitation that could be adaptable for the
Once the information has expired according to the company’s policy, the information on the hard drive is to be destroyed by software deletion programs or physically destroying the device.
Avoid the misuse of the company’s equipment and property for personal gain, or committing any sort of fraudulent acts that could damage the company name. As our employees are being given company equipment such as laptops and cell-phones, employees are prohibited to utilize those communication resources for any non-duty tasks. Employees are not to be using the access to the web for any online activities that are non-duty related such as social networking, streaming videos, or personal email messaging unless instructed to do so by the higher management who will assess the decision beforehand. The use of company cell-phones is strictly limited to company calls, or emergency calls to authorities, and every other use is strictly prohibited and could result in termination.
Policies affect employee privacy by lowering employees' expectations of privacy in the workplace because he or she cannot expected privacy if an employee conducts the activity in a manner open to other employees. If an employee's reasonable expectations are similar to the privacy of personal mail delivered from the post office, he or she may believe the computer are just as private as the documents that he or she stored in the personal workplace's desk or filing cabinet. This reasoning of employee's reasonable expectations violates the employee's privacy. Yet, the employer stands may be that it has a justifiable interest in the oversight of business related employees communications, and in the cost of the used of the computer system. Only through consideration will these two interests will allow the right determination to be determine.
... its media in transit because they are sensitive electronic devices. Electromagnetic fields can wipe or otherwise damage data stored on magnetic media. Radio frequency radiation can cause damage to magnetic media, so placement of the items in a squad car truck or near radio gear should be avoided. The large amount of space a computer and media can take up most investigators choose to take a minivan or other large transport vehicle along with them during executing a search warrant for a computer. During transport care must be taken to ensure the long-term security and stability of these materials. Computer components and media should be kept in a cool, dry place that is free from water pipes or other building utilities that could cause damage to equipment if they fail. They should also be kept well away from magnetic fields or radio frequency interference sources.
These manuals have be written because the data is so easily lost or altered, that all must take the proper precautions to preserve it. First, law enforcement officers must never attempt to search for evidence on the device during the seizure. This is because they may accidently cause the computer to crash, set of a virus, which would wipe the computer clean, or erase what is currently being...
But, these laws always changing, depending on the work setting or policies set by any specific organizations. Because there are so many different work environments, each claim of privacy has to be evaluated based on the actual conditions of the workplace (Smith & Burg, 2015). This is why policies must be set according to the CEO needs. If the organization does not allow the use of the internet for any personal use, than the employee must follow such guidelines. This eliminates employee privacy right violations, because the policy will informs them of the monitoring during the hiring
the employees and vice versa. This is a way to make sure everyone will access
The integration of a variety of information systems into business operations is necessary for growth in the dynamic business environment. These information systems can be minimized and fixed into mobile devices such as smartphones. The use of smartphones can play an important role in supporting business processes and operations, developing strategies for competitive advantage and decision making. These smartphones allow employees to be linked to the office, its data and resources, without being in the office. The use of smartphones for business processes can make the business more efficient and effective. They make it easier for co-workers to communicate among themselves and facilitates better communication between the business and its employees, customers, suppliers and even other businesses, and makes it possible in real-time. For CPS Energy and Lloyd’s Construction, although they were doing well, they realised that they could do much better. They needed to find new ways to further cut costs and maximize profitability. They both decided that the best way to do that was through the introduction of smartphones in their business operation.