What this policy is
Defines secure baselines for systems and applications, the process for approving deviations, and how configuration drift is detected and corrected.
Why every organization needs one
Default configurations are tuned for ease-of-use, not security. Without a hardening baseline, every new system ships exploitable.
What a competent Configuration Management Policy typically contains
- Purpose and scope
- Roles and responsibilities
- Definitions
- Baseline selection (CIS Benchmarks, vendor-hardening guides)
- Configuration-drift monitoring
- Exception approval workflow
- Patching cadence per platform
- 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_configuration_management_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.8.9 | Configuration management | Technological controls |
| ISO/IEC 27001:2022 | A.8.18 | Use of privileged utility programs | Technological controls |
| ISO/IEC 27701:2025 | A.1.4.2 | Limit collection | Privacy by design / default |
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.