Acceptable Use Policy
An Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), acceptable usage policy or fair use policy, is a set of rules applied by the owner or manager of a network, website, service, or large computer system that restrict the ways in which the network, website or system may be used. AUP documents are written for corporations, businesses, universities, schools, internet service providers, and website owners, often to reduce the potential for legal action that may be taken by a user, and often with little prospect of enforcement.
The acceptable use policy (AUP), To fully explain the acceptable use policy would mean to start 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 and firewall LAN to WANs, 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 seem to be alike they are their own entity. The LAN to WAN acceptable use Policy 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
