Security Compliance Management & IT

Every organisation has to take steps in the area of Security Compliance Management; unfortunately it is not a choice. Government regulations and industry standards such as Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), Basel II, and PCI DSS continue to grow in number and organisations are required to implement and demonstrate auditable practices in each of these areas. We have found from our experience in the world of IT, the best way to control the consistency of a process is to automate that process.

Although there are a number of compliance automation solutions in the market, many of these focus merely on the process documentation and auditing requirements of compliance and they do not truly integrate compliance into your IT system management.

Compliance Management from Novell however does. The solution covers log management, user provisioning, access controls, user activity monitoring, compliance reporting and encryption key lifecycle management in single integrated environments.

For your nominated security/compliance officer, it provides a flexible, end to end approach from assessment to planning, design, architecture, implementation and reporting. This flexible approach provides the ability to focus where issues with compliance are most acute.

User Access Management
The burden and responsibility of implementing your security and compliance processes falls on IT. You have to make sure that your data is secure, that employees only have access to those systems that they are allowed to access and that you accurately log, monitor and audit user access.

The Novell Compliance Management platform is an integrated solution that enables you to take defined policies and implement this as part of your user access management controls.

Automation is the key to compliance management. Our solutions eliminate human error by automating all access requests and changes. Automating business processes closes security gaps and improves productivity, especially around compliance audits. Plus, you'll know your security and access policies are always being followed for every user, internal or external. Meanwhile, you as IT can spend less time dealing with access rights and more time on business-critical tasks.

Novell Compliance Management provides both standard data and customisable, out-of-the-box reports that show you quickly who can access what, providing you with enterprise-wide visibility into all user access privileges, even across disparate systems.

If security and compliance management is a key issue for your organisation, then please give the team at b2Lateral a call and we can provide you with more information about Novell Compliance Management. Contact Derrick on 0844 664 2565 or email us on info@b2lateral.net