IT Policies, Standards and Procedures

A listing of IT policies by category.

An alphabetical index of all IT Policies, Standards & Guidelines.

Policies are high level documents that specify requirements and rules that must be adhered to by any entity within the the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Executive Department. These mandatory and enforceable directives are often supported by functional Standards, technical Standards, and Architecture documents that provide additional compliance requirements.

Draft documents currently available for public comment can be found here. 

Please email all comments to standards@state.ma.us.

Enterprise Policy Projects are projects that are being planned for or worked to update, replace, or create new Enterprise Policies, Standards or Architecture documentation. Enterprise Architecture and Policy based efforts require planning and coordination across multiple business units.