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Procedures are standardized, documented administrative practices. Basically, the step-by-step processes by which policies are implemented. 

This typically is a lower-level, detailed instruction set that a computer technician creates to perform a specific function. The technician would establish a procedure to install a program that monitors and detects pornographic Web traffic. Another procedure would be created to manage and review the logs from this program. 

Procedures are the step-by-step instructions to meet a defined goal.