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Information Security Magazine, May 2009: Automating Compliance by Information Security Magazine
This month's cover story is on Automatic Compliance. The weight of regulatory compliance can break the back of your IT operation. Automation can help you gear up for your next audit. We'll also cover new technologies for identity and access management, IDS vs. IPS, and more. The May issue of Security
A Tour of HP Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment by Hewlett-Packard Company
This white paper describes HP Sarbanes-Oxley IT Assessment Accelerator, a template of pre-defined information based on ITGI's COBIT, which is loaded into HP Quality Center to help your organization define and execute Sarbanes-Oxley testing, evaluate the results, and develop
Real-Time Transaction Inspection by Oversight Systems
Systems automates the analysis and testing of auditors and fraud examiners to reduce ongoing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs and provide quality assurance for financial operations. Oversight Systems automates the analysis and testing of auditors and fraud examiners to reduce ongoing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs and provide quality assurance for
Comply With XBRL: Automate Compliance with U.S. and European Financial-Reporting Standards by Information Builders
an accepted uniform taxonomy for existing and new entities as they arrive.

As with any new compliance requirement the process of preparing the submission of XBRL files should be documented and certified as part of proper governance. The quality of the XBRL document does not depend on the tags, but on the process that ensures their

The Hidden Costs of Compliance: Employee Morale by Oversight Systems
While the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance continue to add up, executives must recognize the hidden costs. This paper discusses how SOX's ongoing requirements affect the companies who cannot afford to repeat the compliance efforts. Consultants. Rising audit fees. Dozens of new
Improving Intercompany Reconciliation For A Faster Close: Driving Financial Excellence by SAP America Inc
Objects Companies are moving beyond the initial need to comply with legislation like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and are focusing instead on driving sustainability and control into their corporate processes. Of the various initiatives supporting this shift, the fast close - a concept used to describe a company's ability to complete its
Strategies for Optimizing IT Operations and Enabling Comprehensive Compliance by CA
of new and innovative approaches to automation, policy-based control and comprehensive compliance are critical to ensure the success of future data centers. Read this paper and learn high performance stategies can position your organization greater operational efficiency. Spiraling data center costs and the need to demonstrate
eBook: Reduce Network Operations Centers (NOC) Costs with Automation -- HP eBook by Hewlett-Packard Company
tasked with maximizing network availability, performance, and efficiency, as well as meeting compliance requirements. But, a variety of challenges stand in the way: declining resources and budgets, new security and compliance technologies and requirements, and a lack of integration and automation. This eBook introduces a new approach to
Data Center Automation - Facing the Air of Change by Wipro Technologies
infrastructures cost-effectively. There is one way to meet this challenge and that is Automation. Are you still depending on manual Data Center management techniques?

Many IT organizations still perform a majority of Data Center administration tasks manually. Today, manual techniques are obsolete as Information Technology is

Research Management Solutions: Bringing the Benefits of Automation to the Front Office by Advent Software, Inc
accountability. An organized approach to investment research is a competitive necessity--and a compliance imperative
Five Steps to Gaining Control and Managing Complexity in the Data Center through Service Automation by BMC Software, Inc
reducing risk and costs. Learn how five simple steps can help you chart your course to automation and show you how to develop a deliberate and well-planned incremental approach. Automating your data center can improve operational efficiency and give you control over service quality, security, and business agility, while
SMART Steps Toward Consolidated Workload Automation by BMC Software, Inc
BMC CONTROL-M is a powerful WLA (Workload automation) solution that should be in consideration for any WLA consolidation project. Workload Automation (WLA) is a mature evolution of job scheduling that automates complex IT processing with support for event-driven workloads, multiple
Building a Best-Run Finance Organization by SAP America Inc
finance organizations that these executives lead is expanding as well.

While the advent of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has focused enormous attention on the financial accountability and internal controls of companies across all industries, company executives recognize that individual business activities do not occur in a vacuum. All functions

Thinking Outside the Checkbox: How Continuous Compliance Delivers Measureable Value by Tripwire, Inc.
Compliance used to be a periodic and mostly manual project driven by audit dates and deadlines. But those days are gone. Security threats to IT systems are real-time and ongoing. Compliance used to be a periodic and mostly manual project driven by audit
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 PKI and Deploying the nCipher Hardware Security Module by Thales
and industries are mandating a growing list of new security requirements (GLBA, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU Data Privacy, EU Electronic Signature, etc. ). Increasingly, there is a need for web based solutions that provide instant global access, yet also provide security and privacy in a cost effective manner.

This paper

One: Oracle News for Midsized Organizations Issue 2 by Oracle Corporation
This issue of ONE takes a look at regulatory compliance - a topic that every manager should consider. It is important to look at compliance as a way to drive your business, create efficiency and keep your competitive edge sharp. This issue of ONE takes a look at regulatory compliance - a topic that
CSC: Gleaning Log Data for Security, Operational and Compliance Success by RSA, The Security Division of EMC
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system has facilitated business growth and compliance while enhancing system availability.

RSA enVision gives CSC a single, integrated, three-in-one log management solution for simplifying compliance, enhancing security and mitigating risk - both in its own business and on behalf of its

Global Best Practices in Email Security, Privacy and Compliance by Proofpoint, Inc.

Securing inbound email - while challenging enough - is less difficult than maintaining compliance with the complex, overlapping and sometimes conflicting global regulations that govern data privacy, transactional ethics and corporate governance.

Some of these regulations are designed to stop sources of spam, viruses and
Ensuring Enterprise-Wide Compliance by Infor
help to ensure enterprise-wide compliance. In the other white papers of the series, "The Sarbanes Oxley Act" (SOA) and "Internal Regulations", additional critical elements of successful compliance initiatives are discussed
E-Book: Log Management for Compliance by SearchSecurity.com & SearchCompliance.com
part of managing information technology across the enterprise. This E-Book will look at how compliance has changed IT's requirements for log management tools in general, and how the tools continue to evolve to meet security needs as well. Log management has become an increasingly important part of managing information technology across the
Identity Management for Midsize Businesses: Reducing Costs, Securing Data and Ensuring Compliance by Oracle Corporation
To further complicate matters, many midsize businesses must report on this information for compliance purposes.

Read this white paper and explore the unique needs of midsize businesses as well as the factors driving them toward stronger identity management platforms. Learn how Oracle Identity management solutions address the following
Risk, Readiness and Redundancy: PCI Compliance Automation with Symantec Control Compliance Suite by Symantec Corporation
costs to reputation damage and revenue loss. This paper examines how Symantec CCS automates PCI compliance while protecting cardholder data. Simply put, IT risk is business risk. Audit failures, security threats, data loss incidents and system outages all represent potential risk scenarios for the business, each with consequences that range
PCI Compliance in a Silver-Lined Cloud by Alert Logic
tips from David Taylor, founder, PCI Knowledge Base, on how a cloud based solution maintains compliance and security in a world of shrinking budgets and expanding regulations. Though more and more companies are achieving PCI compliance, those same companies now face tightening budgets and reduced resources, affecting their ability to
Accelerating Return-On-Investment (ROI) with Roles Management by Oracle Corporation
based access control solution that allows true automation of identity administration and compliance attestation with industry experts who have already helped other organizations! Learn from Industry experts exactly where you can realize significant cost savings and how to leverage your existing IT investment to improve enterprise
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