Acceptable Use Policy
CSS150-1301B-01
Luz Centeno
March 4, 2013
Prof. Cordero

Acceptable Use Policy To fully explain the acceptable use policy would mean to begin from the beginning, the user domain. The user domain is the employee or people within an organization who is granted access to the information system for the organization. There are roles and tasks, responsibility, and accountability that go into an acceptable use policy for the user domain. Within the user domain is the access of LAN to Wan, web surfing, and internet. LAN to Wan is the activities between LAN to Wan and firewalls, routers, intrusion, detection, and workstations. Web surfing determines what a user can do on company time with company resources. Internet is when the user has access to the internet what types of controls should the organization have on the certain internet sites being accessed. Although they all sort of are the same they are very much different (Cordero, 2013). For the Lan to Wan AUP will go hand in hand with the roles and tasks parts of the user domain. Users would be given access to certain systems, applications, and data depending on their access rights. The AUP is like a rulebook that employees need to follow when using an organization’s IT assets and if they are violated it could be grounds for termination. The AUP will set grounds on employees to understand that they are responsible for any and all actions on an organization’s IT assets. In particular to organizations that have databases with sensitive information may also require a criminal background check before granting access. This all prevents risks, threats, and vulnerability that could compromise an organization’s system, applications, and/or data. Lan and Wan AUP helps in preventing users from destroying the firewalls and protection programs from leaking sensitive information and/or hackers from