Security Compliance Management Whitepaper Library

Essential Practices for Achieving Effective Security Compliance Management
With security threats evolving, organizations must protect valuable corporate assets by ensuring a strong risk management and security posture. At the same time, they need to maintain compliance with the ever-changing myriad of regulatory mandates and industry standards or can face costly consequences. To be proactive, organizations need a practical, cost-effective approach to managing security risks while achieving, maintaining and proving regulatory compliance. Properly implemented, security compliance management dramatically improves security by minimizing threats and reducing risk, making compliance itself much easier to achieve.
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Aberdeen Research: Sustaining Compliance
A new report by Aberdeen Research on "Sustaining Compliance" reveals that Best-in-Class organizations view security-related compliance not as a one-time event, but as a strategic, sustainable program. In addition to helping them to achieve and sustain compliance requirements, these organizations also enjoy lower operational costs, support higher scale, reduce security risk, and maintain consistent security policies.
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Driving a Proactive Security Strategy
Today, enterprises around the globe face unprecedented demands to comply with strict security and privacy legislation. At the same time, companies continue to search for the most reliable and efficient means for protectively protecting critical business information in the interest of intelligent business management. To accomplish both, companies must take a comprehensive approach to security management, aligning business security programs with compliance initiatives.
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Winning the Battle Against Inside Threats: Actionable Strategies for Safeguarding Critical Data
To manage threats to the enterprise and successfully meet compliance challenges, organizations need a comprehensive security strategy that can successfully do battle with inside as well as outside threats. Today, companies are increasingly leveraging security information management (SIM) solutions to build a clean, concise, and manageable process for dealing with the tremendous volumes of raw security information from disparate devices, applications, and databases. With the right SIM solution, this correlated security data can be transformed into actionable security intelligence, providing a sound risk management platform while helping companies manage and maintain compliance.
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Achieving Compliance Through Security Information Management
Compliance is perhaps the major driver for security technology acquisition. While no single product can make an organization "compliant," Security Information Management (SIM) plays a vital role in enabling a security infrastructure that meets the requirements of key regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA, and FISMA. This paper discusses the important role SIM technology plays in helping an organization meet the information security requirements of specific regulations and the benefits the nFX SIM One delivers.
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PCI: How to Safeguard Your Customer's Data Against Threats
As incidents of identity theft and fraud skyrocket, companies are scrambling to keep up with complex attacks and effectively safeguard consumer information. If you store, process, or transmit cardholder data, comprehensive visibility, actionable intelligence and the ability to respond rapidly to threats has become paramount. This whitepaper discusses how new security information and event management technologies can enable these mission-critical activities and assist in managing some of the most complex and difficult-to-manage requirements in the PCI DSS.
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SOX Reloaded: Essential Practices for Successful Compliance
SOX. You know you must comply. And a proactive approach to security is the lynch pin to ensuring compliance. Monitoring access to sensitive corporate and customer data is an essential element of an effective SOX compliance and risk management strategy. Companies need to ensure that threats to critical data do not go undetected and when incidents do occur, that they are quickly remediated and documented for internal and external audits. This paper explores how security information management solutions offer a cost effective alternative for proactive risk management across your network, applications, databases, and user activities, while enabling SOX compliance as a byproduct of these best practice activities.
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FISMA Best Practices: Overcoming Persistent Weaknesses Through Effective Security Compliance Management
Securing Federal information and systems is an ongoing challenge. By implementing comprehensive security compliance management methods for data collection, retention, monitoring and reporting, federal agencies can successfully demonstrate a sound framework that meets FISMA requirements. This whitepaper discusses how federal agencies can develop and execute a proactive security compliance management strategy by employing six key best practices.
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Achieving GLBA Compliance through Security Information Management
GLBA requirements have created significant IT and information security challenges for the financial services industry. Learn how a properly implemented, a best-practices SIM solution gives financial institutions real-time visibility into information security-related risk and compliance data, so that customer data is adequately protected.
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Achieving HIPAA Compliance through Security Information Management
The need to comply with HIPAA regulations and protect patient information has created substantial technology challenges for healthcare organizations, especially large operations with diverse systems and applications. Learn how the right SIM solution can give healthcare organizations the visibility and security intelligence they need to meet HIPAA information security and reporting requirements.
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