Free compliance policy templates

The top-level policy that anchors your whole program: leadership, risk, access, and the commitments everything else references.

How you identify, assess, treat, and accept information security risks on a recurring basis, and who owns each decision.

The rules for how staff use company devices, accounts, and data, the policy every employee actually signs.

Least-privilege access, joiner/mover/leaver, periodic reviews, and the MFA requirements auditors probe hardest.

Modern authentication rules: length over complexity, MFA, and secure credential handling, aligned to current guidance.

Classification tiers and how each is labeled, stored, shared, and disposed of across its lifecycle.

Where encryption is required (in transit and at rest), acceptable algorithms, and how keys are managed.

How long each kind of record is kept, who owns that decision, and how the record is destroyed once the period ends.

How changes to code and infrastructure are proposed, reviewed, tested, and approved, one of the controls SOC 2 probes hardest.

Security requirements in the backlog, code review and static analysis, dependency and secrets scanning, and what has to pass before a release ships.

Backup frequency and storage, recovery-time and data-loss targets with a restore test behind them, the continuity playbook, and what triggers disaster recovery.

What you log, how long you keep it, and how monitoring feeds detection, the evidence trail behind continuous compliance.

How you assess suppliers before granting access and set security expectations in agreements and on an ongoing basis.

The reporting channel, the named response roles, containment, breach notification and the review afterwards, so a cyber attack is not handled from memory.