Chapter 16. Computing Policies and Agreements

You will learn about the following in this chapter:

  • How to create acceptable usage policies

  • User rights and responsibilities

  • Security policies

  • Security waivers

  • How to distribute and maintain policies and agreements

Policies and agreements are necessary in any computing infrastructure to ensure that resources are used fairly, securely, and legally. Creating and enforcing policies establishes acceptable standards for the use of the organization's network and system resources, so that the system's administrators and users have clear operational and legal guidelines within which to use the system. System administrators create different types of policies and agreements, but every organization requires policies ...

Get Unix® System Management Primer Plus now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.