HRM-INT-12Term
Policy acknowledgment
A recorded confirmation that a person has read a security policy or a topic-specific policy, refreshed when the policy changes. It is an organization-level readiness signal.
Example
A contractor acknowledges the acceptable-use policy on day one and again after the AI-use section is revised.
Also called
1How analysts, standards and vendors name the same idea.
- topic-specific policiesISO/IEC 27001:2022A.6.3 requires regular policy updates for personnel.
Sources
2Related terms
3"Policy acknowledgment" (HRM-INT-12), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/terms/policy-acknowledgment
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