BY TOM DIAMOND,
President, New Boundary Technologies
IT departments are spending more time and resources on IT compliance initiatives then ever before. The need to comply with multiple industry, government, and corporate data security requirements is driving increased interest in best practices and technologies that can help IT implement repeatable compliance processes and create sustainable compliance environments. According to the SANS Institute, the world's largest information security training and certification organization, IT departments should be focusing a good share of their time and attention on automating system configurations. That's because the SANS Institute ranks the following as their top two best practices for preventing IT security risks:
• Configuring systems for maximum security while allowing full business functionality; and
• Using automation technologies to ensure systems remain securely configured.
Implementing data security best practices provides a consensus framework for leveraging the processes and technologies that lead to corporate and regulatory compliance, but it is important to note that best practices are a means to compliance only. Likewise, no single technology or product can deliver compliance out of the box. But by leveraging technologies and methodologies that automate configuration management, IT departments take a giant step toward creating sustainable compliance environments.
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President, New Boundary Technologies
IT departments are spending more time and resources on IT compliance initiatives then ever before. The need to comply with multiple industry, government, and corporate data security requirements is driving increased interest in best practices and technologies that can help IT implement repeatable compliance processes and create sustainable compliance environments. According to the SANS Institute, the world's largest information security training and certification organization, IT departments should be focusing a good share of their time and attention on automating system configurations. That's because the SANS Institute ranks the following as their top two best practices for preventing IT security risks:
• Configuring systems for maximum security while allowing full business functionality; and
• Using automation technologies to ensure systems remain securely configured.
Implementing data security best practices provides a consensus framework for leveraging the processes and technologies that lead to corporate and regulatory compliance, but it is important to note that best practices are a means to compliance only. Likewise, no single technology or product can deliver compliance out of the box. But by leveraging technologies and methodologies that automate configuration management, IT departments take a giant step toward creating sustainable compliance environments.
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