Policies
Policies are rules and regulations that govern your business and ensure that you comply with industry and government regulations and laws. They reflect your company's standards and guide how your organization runs, and how its employees conduct themselves. Examples of compliance policies that you might implement include information security, data protection, employment, and many more.
Using Hyperproof you can incorporate your policies, standards, and process documents into your compliance operations, and manage the life cycle of these documents. Each policy record in Hyperproof represents the entire policy life cycle. Policies can contain the following:
One current or effective version of the policy document that the organization is expected to follow
Retired versions of the policy document for historical reference
The next iteration of the policy document in either the draft or approval process. The effective version stays in place while working on the draft version until it is promoted to effective.
Data about each version of the document, such as a version ID, approval date, list of approvers, effective date, next version date, and retired date. See Editing policy details.
Proof linked to the version of the document indicating that it followed the correct processes, such as it has been approved, read, and acknowledged by employees, or any other evidence you or an auditor might require
Exceptions to the policy are represented by issues, that record situations where the policy won't be met. See Adding an issue to a policy.
Links to controls that implement the directives in the policy