Policy and IT Controls Compliance Challenges and Solutions
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(Source: Symantec)  Achieving compliance requires a set of methodologies and disciplines that give executives a better picture of the security of their enterprise and help them improve it.  Written by Richard LeVine of Accenture, this white paper describes the benefits of compliance, the depth of work required to achieve it, and some powerful tools that increase the effectiveness of compliance efforts.
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The march of information technology into the workplace has been greeted with a mix of awe and resistance. For all their promise of productivity gains, computers, business software, and telecommunications gear have disrupted processes at the core of a company's identity.
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This article provides an overview of ITIL, a management-level set of best practices and guidelines for an integrated and process-based approach to IT and security.
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Companies are taking several paths to overcome user- and vendor-created hurdles to the implementation of virtualization technologies.
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(Source: MKS) A look at how to bridge the gap between Development and IT Operations through unified change management - an approach to automate IT and software processes while uniting process frameworks such as ITIL, CMMI and CobiT, to better meet compliance goals, achieve higher levels of process maturity and improve productivity.
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(Source: Imprivata)  The banking and credit card industry established the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) to provide organizations and IT departments with the tools they need to combat growing security threats. This paper examines the requirements of the new standard and discusses the technology solutions available to help organizations comply with these regulations in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
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Someday, encryption features built into a wide range of IT products -- from operating systems and messaging gateways to hard drives and storage systems -- may work in concert to offer central policy enforcement across different types of network assets and devices.
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Enterprise software makers and the companies they serve have done much gnashing of teeth in the last year over meeting the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Sarbox). But Sarbox is only one of many regulatory challenges that organizations are struggling to meet, AMR Research's John Hagerty stresses.
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Compliance with federal regulations requires extreme care. On the other hand, users are walking out of your office carrying high-risk data on mobile devices.  What's an IT manager to do?
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The growth in data on company networks will pose challenges for IT managers in security, regulatory compliance and business processes, said IDC.
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Third-party software helps companies comply with regulatory requirements and industry standards while managing and consolidating rules so firewalls run more efficiently, customers and experts say.
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IT infrastructures have become sufficiently complex that it's a challenge to peel through the layers of abstraction and aggregate the various components that determine the recoverability of an application.
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(Source: Cognos)  Even as businesses look to cut costs, IT's reporting responsibilities are increasing. Regulatory compliance, strategic initiatives user demands require collaboration among multiple departments and business functions. Enterprise reporting is a way out of this chaos.
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IT managers are struggling to make sure their organizations comply with a raft of regulations on lean IT budgets, according to Open Text CEO Tom Jenkins.
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(Source: Xythos)  Many organizations still wrestle with how to address compliance requirements through document management. They know that file management and collaboration tools lack many required features and high-end document management systems can be expensive to deploy and difficult for the average team member to use. What's needed is a solution that is "just the right size". Find out how Basic Content Management can be a critical component to transform compliance projects from a burden into an investment.
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InfoWorld - Technologies aimed at bolstering enterprise data protection remain tough to manage, but companies can derive significant benefits if they utilize the tools with a pragmatic approach, said security industry experts.
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Many organizations allocate large resources to implement and deploy packaged ERP, CRM and SCM applications. Now these organizations need to move away from operational efficiency gains achieved and into leveraging their data for performance management and business intelligence.