Employee security awareness policy
**Document control**
| Field | Value | |---|---| | Organization | [COMPANY NAME] | | Owner | [OWNER NAME / ROLE] | | Approver | [APPROVER NAME / ROLE] | | Version | [VERSION] | | Effective date | [YYYY-MM-DD] | | Next review | [YYYY-MM-DD] |
**Mapped controls:** ISO/IEC 27001:2022 A.6.3, A.6.8; SOC 2 CC1.4, CC2.2 (educational mapping).
1. Purpose and scope [COMPANY NAME] ensures employees and contractors understand their security responsibilities. This policy applies to all workforce members with access to company information or systems.
2. Policy 1. Security awareness training is completed during onboarding and at least annually thereafter. 2. Training covers phishing and social engineering, credential hygiene, MFA, data handling, acceptable use, remote work, incident reporting, and applicable privacy duties. 3. Personnel in elevated-risk roles receive role-based training, including secure development, privileged administration, privacy operations, or incident response. 4. [COMPANY NAME] runs periodic awareness exercises such as phishing simulations. Results are used for coaching, not as the sole measure of individual performance. 5. Personnel promptly report suspicious messages, lost devices, accidental disclosures, and suspected policy violations through [REPORTING CHANNEL]. 6. Training completion and overdue escalation are documented. Repeated non-completion follows the disciplinary process. 7. Material threat, policy, or regulatory changes trigger targeted communications outside the annual cycle.
3. Responsibilities and evidence [SECURITY ROLE] owns content and metrics; managers ensure completion; Human Resources supports onboarding and escalation. Retain attendance, acknowledgments, exercise metrics, communications, and remediation records.
4. Exceptions Accessibility or leave-related accommodations must preserve the learning objective and be approved by [OWNER NAME / ROLE].
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