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HR-02 Employment Terms and Conditions

5 sub-criteria

Changed since C5:2020

Basic criterion

Specified which data types the criterion applies to.

Added requirements further qualifying the employment terms and conditions.

Added requirement regarding the personnel being instructed on the code of ethics and the information security policy, as well as the policies, procedures and instructions.

Wording in C5:2020

Basic criterion

The Cloud Service Provider's internal and external employees are required by the employment terms and conditions to comply with applicable policies and instructions relating to information security.

The information security policy, and the policies and instructions based on it, are to be acknowledged by the internal and external personnel in a documented form before access is granted to any cloud customer data or system components under the responsibility of the Cloud Service Provider used to provide the cloud service in the production environment.

All changes since C5:2020

Basic criterion

HR-02.01B

The cloud service provider ensures that the employment terms and conditions reflect applicable legal and regulatory requirements in accordance with SP-01.

HR-02.02B

The cloud service provider's internal and external personnel are required by employment terms and conditions to comply with the code of ethics and the information security policy, as well as the policies, procedures and instructions based on it.

HR-02.03B

The cloud service provider ensures that a non-disclosure provision is included in the terms for all internal and external personnel. The non-disclosure provision covers any information, including anonymised and decontextualised information, that the personnel obtains or generates as part of the cloud service.

Supplementary information

These agreements are prescribed in more detail in HR-06.

HR-02.04B

The cloud service provider instructs its personnel on the code of ethics and the information security policy, as well as the policies, procedures and instructions based on it, before access is granted to any cloud service customer data, cloud service derived data, cloud service provider data and account data or system components under the responsibility of the cloud service provider used to provide the cloud service in the production environment.

HR-02.05B

Additionally, the cloud service provider requires the code of ethics and the information security policy, as well as the policies, procedures and instructions based on it, to be acknowledged by the internal and external personnel in a documented form before access is granted to any of the aforementioned data or system components.

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