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This is an exercise that gives top management some warm fuzzy feelings, but may have no actual benefit to the corporation, so it may not pay to argue with management's desires.

The primary value, and perhaps the only value, of documenting security
policies and procedures, is to reduce the amount of job security for
outside lawyers.

The secondary value is job security for inside lawyers.

The third value is short term employment for the documenter.

Dataloss logs prove that even when documented policies
and procedures exist, unbelievable losses still occur.

Remember that places that lost millions of records of credit cards, social security #s etc. ... almost every one of them claimed to be PCI compliant, and to have passed numerous security audits.

In one of the recent incidents involving hundreds of stores, with millions of customers, the skimmer was installed in 300+ stores to capture credit card info at the same time the credit card was used, on the exact same day the security auditors were at the place checking everything out, and their reprot was that everything was A Ok.

In Britain, they lost all the medical info on every child in the nation, because the security manual had been classified top secret from the people whose job it was to carry out the procedures in the manual. They promised to fix things so it would never happen again, but within a month it had happened another 10 times. They should have promised that they would fix things within 10 years, to allow for the normal pace of government fixing things.

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