Common use of Minimum Security Measures Clause in Contracts

Minimum Security Measures. A5.3.1 The Contractor must provide the following minimum mandatory security measures: Compliance with the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, see paragraphs A5.3 below that cover pre-employment checks and Contractor’s declaration ; Appropriate risk mitigation actions as may be appropriate for effective contract management activities. Includes the identification of soft copy information as well as hard copy information; Ensure the minimum number of Contractor personnel handle the Client’s data and the identification of roles and responsibilities of staff handling the Client’s data is recorded; Development of appropriate incident management processes and systems that will be used to deal effectively with any incident of data loss; Ensure that all Contractors’ staff involved in handling departmental data within the contract understands their obligations to data security including their legal and contractual responsibilities.