Archive for the ‘Security Compliance’ Category

The TickITplus Kick Start Guide has Been Launched

Following the release late last month of the Base Process Library, the Kick Start Guide – the essential guide for all organisations pursuing TickITplus certification – has been launched
/EIN Presswire/ — Following the release late last month of the Base Process Library (http://www.itgovernance.co.uk/products/3460), the Kick Start Guide – the essential guide for all organisations [...]

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The Business Case for Information Security Management System

Today’s economy is about protecting the information assets which is essential to existence of an organization. After a major incident or a security breach it is unthinkable to say it is not going to affect your bottom line. Most of the organization has to comply with various standards and regulations and a breach [...]

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Manager’s Guide to Compliance

Manager’s Guide to Compliance: Sarbanes-Oxley, COSO, ERM, COBIT, IFRS, BASEL II, OMB’s A-123, ASX 10, OECD Principles, Turnbull Guidance, Best Practices, and Case Studies (Manager’s Guide Series)

A Wall Street Journal/Harris poll revealed that two thirds of investors express doubts in the ability of corporate boards of [...]

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ArcSight offers $49.00 entry-level audit logging package

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Security Log Management: Identifying Patterns in the Chaos
Arcsight offer $49 entry level logging solution – a monumental change from the SIEM vendors, since they were trouncing their clients at price of 200K and up.
Data security and compliance specialist ArcSight has taken the wraps off a slew of product updates – Enterprise Security [...]

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2010 Compliance Laws

Image by purpleslog via FlickrIn 2010 there will be two important compliance laws introduced which will affect the majority of North American organizations and many global organization too.
45 US States followed California when they introduced “SB1386“, the Security Breach Information Act, which has specific and restrictive privacy breach reporting requirements.

From the 1st January 2010, ALL [...]

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Audit of security control and scoping

Information Technology Control and Audit
The audit is utilized as a tool to check compliance control based on standards such as ISO 27002 or NIST 800-53 etc. Some other terms which are not sometime rigorous audit have been used to asses controls are gap analysis, benchmarking and control review.
Scoping sets the boundaries of the audit, where [...]

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Vulnerability management and regulatory compliance

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Information security requirements are growing for financial, healthcare and government sectors. Especially a new ARRA and HITECH provision for HIPAA mandates compliance for business providers/vendors.
The business owners have seen growing number of government and industry specific regulations for protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data from ever growing threat [...]

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PCI DSS significance and contractual agreement

The PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry & Data Security Standard) was established by credit card companies to create a unified security standard for handling credit card information.  The retail service industry now understands the strategic significance of PCI DSS compliance, which was demonstrated when TJX announced that their system was compromised for more than 17 [...]

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