New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM)
Chapter 5: Information security documentation – New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM)

New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM) 5.5.5.C.01: 5.5.5.C.01 Procedures required in the system administrator SOPs

The system administrator's SOPs should document procedures for the following topics, as set out in the table in this control: access control (putting access rights to applications and data into effect); configuration control (putting changes to configurations or system software into effect); system backup and recovery (taking backups of data, audit logs included, securing backup tapes, and recovering when systems fail); user account management (adding system users and removing them, setting the privileges users hold, and cleaning up directories and files when a user leaves or changes role); and incident response (detecting and reporting potential information security incidents and managing them, establishing whether an incident's cause was accidental or deliberate, actions to recover and to minimise exposure, and further actions to prevent it happening again).

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  • 5.37 Documented operating procedures

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