By Pam Johnson 
Whether it’s SOX, PCI, NERC-CIP, or HIPAA, organizations are facing more compliance issues than ever before, and the penalties for failing to comply with these regulations can be severe. To further complicate matters, no single product can address all the compliance requirements and no one department in an organization has responsibility for implementing solutions for all the compliance pieces. The result is multiple, overlapping and duplicative solutions that often don’t truly satisfy the needs of the auditors and don’t offer sufficient flexibility to allow for integration with other solutions.
Monitoring data is often easy to modify after it is collected, making it an unreliable source of compliance information. Integration with other solutions or moving data to a common data repository is difficult. Compliance reports are often generated by hand using several potentially unreliable sources, resulting in reports that are inconsistent from event to event.
IT Foundation Management provides a real-time view of compliance risk, automatically capturing and recording all changes in the IT foundation. The records produced are accurate, consistent, comprehensive, and no manual work is required to produce them. These records provide the means to prove compliance, pass audits, and verify practices across the entire IT foundation.
The comprehensive, real-time compliance approach of IT Foundation Management makes compliance issues immediately actionable and significantly reduces risk to the business.