Cybersecurity policies
Develop or refine the core policies that anchor your program.
- Acceptable use
- Access control
- Password & MFA
- Remote access
- Data handling & classification
- Backup & recovery
- Administrative & privileged access security
Practice · Documentation
Cybersecurity documentation that holds up — to auditors, insurers, and reality.
Most security programs do not fail for lack of tooling. They fail because the policies, plans, and registers either do not exist or do not match how the organization actually operates. We write the documentation that withstands a real incident, a real audit, and a real insurance renewal.
Documentation as a control, not a chore.
Auditors, regulators, cyber-insurance underwriters, and incoming executives all read the same artifacts: your policies, your incident response plan, your risk register, and your roadmap. When those documents are missing, generic, or inconsistent, the rest of the program loses credibility — even if the technical controls behind them are strong.
ADK Cyber writes and refines security documentation that matches how your organization actually works. No templates pasted in unchanged. No 60-page policy nobody reads. No risk register that has not been updated since the last vendor review.
What we deliver
Six documentation work streams.
Engage on one or string them together into a complete documentation refresh.
Incident response documents
Practical IR materials your team can actually use under pressure.
- Incident response plan
- Escalation steps & decision rights
- Internal & external contact lists
- Evidence handling notes
- Ransomware response checklist
- Communications templates (legal, customer, regulator)
Risk registers
Organize cybersecurity risks in a register that gets used, not filed.
- Risk identification & categorization
- Owners & accountable executives
- Business impact & likelihood ratings
- Current controls inventory
- Planned mitigations & target dates
- Review cadence & status tracking
Cyber insurance readiness
Materials that get you through the underwriter's questionnaire — and a better renewal.
- Security control summary
- Questionnaire support & review
- MFA coverage & exception notes
- Backup posture summary
- EDR/XDR status & gaps
- Firewall & perimeter review context
Executive summaries
Translate technical findings into language a board, an underwriter, or a CFO can act on.
- Plain-language findings & risk themes
- Posture trend over time
- Cost & effort framing
- Leadership-ready next steps
- Optional board-deck slide content
Security roadmap materials
Turn scattered notes and technical findings into a prioritized, executable plan.
- Prioritized remediation backlog
- Business-impact justifications
- Ownership & sequencing
- Quarterly milestones
- Budget anchors & vendor decisions
Engagement
How a documentation engagement runs.
Inventory existing artifacts
What policies, plans, and registers do you have today? What is current, what is stale, what never existed?
Stakeholder interviews
Short conversations with the people who actually operate the controls — IT, clinical leads, finance, legal — so the documentation matches reality.
Draft & review cycles
We draft, you redline. We aim for two structured review rounds per artifact — not endless ping-pong.
Approval & publication
We help shepherd documents through executive sign-off and into the system of record (intranet, GRC tool, shared drive).
Annual refresh cadence
Optional ongoing engagement: a yearly review pass so documentation does not silently rot between audits.
Frameworks & alignment
Documentation can be aligned to any framework you operate under — NIST CSF 2.0, CIS Controls, HIPAA Security Rule, NIST 800-171, or specific cyber-insurance carrier requirements. We pick the alignment that maps to your obligations, not ours.
Need documentation that holds up?
Whether you are starting from a blank page or refreshing a stack of stale policies, we can help.