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12 policy sections
Purpose and scope, definitions, roles with a RACI table, asset classification, access control, repository rules, endpoint handling, third parties, monitoring, employee lifecycle, violations, and policy review.
What This Resource Includes
Use it as the drafting base for a source code policy you can actually publish. Placeholders are marked, recommended values are labelled as recommendations rather than standards, and every clause has a control reference behind it.
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Two working appendices
Appendix A maps every section to ISO/IEC 27001:2022, NIST SP 800-53 Rev.5 and SOC 2. Appendix B is a 14-item rollout checklist with owner, target date, status and risk.
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The clauses most templates skip
Limits on what code may be pasted into external AI coding tools, contractor and outsourcing terms, and a T-30 to T+30 departure timeline with named owners.
Written to Survive Legal Review
Source code policies usually fail at one of two points: too vague to enforce, or so strict that engineers route around them. This template states each rule together with the approved alternative path, marks every organisation-specific value as a placeholder, and keeps the monitoring section inside limits your legal team can sign off.
- Three-level asset classification — Restricted, Confidential, Internal — with typical assets and concrete handling requirements for each.
- Nine repository rules covering branch protection, mandatory review, traceable commit identity, secrets, forks and clones, and dual approval for visibility changes.
- A third-party chapter with contract preconditions, isolated development environments, account expiry, subcontracting limits and written destruction confirmation.
- Recommended values are shaded and labelled as recommendations, not industry mandates — replace them with figures you can defend from your own baseline.
