Polices, plans and procedures are crucial for protecting an organization’s assets, employees, and reputation. By proactively managing risks, ensuring compliance, and preparing for potential incidents, an organization can create an environment where operations can run smoothly with minimal disruption.  

• Policy: Refers to clear, comprehensive, and well-defined plans, rules, and practices that defines the expectations of the organization and is endorsed by the highest level of leadership.  
• Plans: Define the framework that the implements the policy through stating the scope, detailing the objectives, organization, documentation and performance improvement framework.  
• Procedures: A set sequence of necessary activities that performs a specific task or function. Procedures are normally designed as a series of steps to be followed as a consistent and repetitive approach or cycle to accomplish an end result.