What this policy is
Defines what employees and contractors are and aren't allowed to do with the organization's IT resources, data and identities — covering everything from personal use of work laptops to social-media posts that reference the employer.
Why every organization needs one
The AUP is the rule book that lets HR and legal take action when someone misuses access. Without one in place, every disciplinary case becomes a debate about whether the conduct was actually prohibited.
What a competent Acceptable Use Policy typically contains
- Purpose and scope
- Roles and responsibilities
- Definitions
- Permitted vs prohibited use of corporate assets
- Email, internet and social-media conduct
- Personal-device (BYOD) rules
- Monitoring and privacy notice
- Consequences of violation
- Review cadence (typically annual) and version control
- Approval, sign-off and effective date
How iCompaas tracks this policy
The icompaas policy-doc producer manages this document through an 8-state lifecycle: draft → generated → internal_qa → customer_review → in_review → approved → signed (with rejected as a terminal side-state). The producer publishes a policy_doc_acceptable_use_policy_signed compliance finding once at least one document of this kind reaches the signed state for the account being assessed; the finding then rolls up into every compliance framework that references this policy (see the table below).
Compliance frameworks that reference this policy
The icompaas compliance controls library links every policy document to the controls in each framework that require, evidence, or otherwise rely on it. Below: every control across every framework in the iCompaas catalogue that names this policy as part of its evidence base. Each control links to its own dedicated page with auditor-view content + implementation guidance.
| Framework | Control | Title | Component |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC 27001:2022 | A.5.10 | Acceptable use of information and other associated assets | Organizational controls |
| ISO/IEC 42001:2023 | A.9.2 | Processes for responsible use of AI systems | Organizational controls |
| ISO/IEC 42001:2023 | A.9.3 | Objectives for responsible use of AI systems | Organizational controls |
3 controls across 2 frameworks reference this policy.
About this page
This article is part of the iCompaas Policy Documents library — one page per signed-document type the icompaas policy-doc producer tracks for customer accounts. The article is intentionally framework-agnostic: a customer signing a policy of this kind gets the same regulatory benefit across every framework that references it.