Documentation Templates

What are documentation templates?

Documentation Templates are documents that provide a content outline to meet certain documentation needs. These are pre-formatted and ready to be customized to make them suitable for your business needs.

Where should they be used?

Templates can be used anywhere to speed up your documentation efforts. Good examples of its use are job descriptions, risk registers, vendor onboarding, etc. 

How to use them?

Most documentation templates come with their own guidance and instructions. Whenever you need to document something for your compliance programs, search here for a template and then customize it to make sure it reflects your business environment. For example, if you are leveraging an incident response template, ensure that the template contains the names of individuals and teams from your organizations and the incident reporting timelines defined in your policies rather than going with the prefilled template content.

The below articles have been curated to provide you with externally or internally sourced templates.