01 October 2008
Clearswift Policy Template
Clearswift Policy Template

01 October 2007
A Practical Guide for Creating an Email & Internet Usage Policy
For over ten years, Clearswift has been evangelizing policy-based security. For us, content security must start with a clear, explicit policy that meets the need of the business and is communicated to all staff members. Only then can people, processes and technology play their part in enforcing that policy. Over the years, we’ve produced guides to help our customers create or improve their own policies. But we’ve never actually ‘opened our kimono’ and shared our internal policy with the world. Until now. What you’re about to read is the same policy that every Clearswift employee signs up to, and is enforced for email, web and IM usage through MIMEsweeper It has served us well over the years, helping clarify acceptable use, deterring unacceptable behavior, guiding our MIMEsweeper deployments and removing the ‘But I didn’t know’ defense.