Symantec has updated its
Symantec Control Compliance Suite to help reduce
the cost and complexity of IT policy management and
compliance.
Symantec has automated the assessment of policies against
industry regulations, standards and best practices to do this.
“Organisations today are required to demonstrate compliance with
the various industry regulations, mandates and standards,” said
Vivian Tero, an analyst at IDC.
“Solutions like Symantec Control Compliance Suite help IT
executives unify the assessment and management of both programmatic
and procedural IT controls to effectively lower the administrative
cost and complexity of corporate compliance programs,” said
Tero.
Due to the multiple mandates, regulations and standards that
impact multiple business units at any given company, many increase
compliance costs by implementing redundant controls to address each
one, though many include the same requirements, said Symantec.
The new Symantec Control Compliance Suite 8.5 provides key
elements of the IT governance, risk and compliance management
process by helping to ensure coverage of external mandates by
automating policy documentation and dissemination, acceptance
tracking and exception management.
It also demonstrates compliance to internal and external
policies by automating the assessment of technical and procedural
controls and evaluating this against risk criteria.
Compliance evidence can also be gathered on configurations,
permissions, patches and vulnerabilities, and the solution controls
self assessment of procedural activities without relying on
agents.
Symantec Control Compliance Suite 8.5 will
be available later this month.
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