Cutting Compliance Complexity

November 6th, 2006: Risk and compliance management software producer Brabeion has launched a new compliance management platform that it claims helps organisations reduce the complexity and cost of compliance while monitoring and measuring compliance against multiple regulations, across global networks.

The company says that its Brabeion Compliance Manager (BCM) is an all new and unique piece of software that utilises existing vulnerability management and change and configuration management systems to collect, compare and report their actual compliance status at any given time.

BCM monitors and measures compliance against an organisation’s policy baseline, reporting on what the organisation must do to meet regulations and fill gaps. The company says that by covering technology, people and processes BCM helps organisations reduce their costs of regulatory compliance by as much as 60 percent.

The software appears as a compliance dashboard and is aimed at companies that face an almost continuous audit cycle, whether from Sarbanes-Oxley, industry-specific, or business partner audits. It enables security and compliance officers can drill into specific operational groups and get a clear picture of compliance levels across the enterprise. Internal and external auditors can examine specific controls and view the current status of specific assets and any required remediation efforts; IT personnel can utilise the compliance data to prioritise remediation efforts and improve service and incident response.

“The multiple audits that today’s regulated enterprise faces are each unique and require an ongoing commitment of valuable resources,” said Jay White, Global Information Protection Architect, Chevron Corporation. “Brabeion Compliance Manager, in tandem with Brabeion Compliance Centre, is a fully realised system for policy lifecycle management, compliance monitoring, and compliance reporting, essentially cutting the cost and cycle times for the audit process and enabling the company, not the auditor, to control the audit.”

What is unique about BCM compared to other compliance management platforms, according to the company, is the solution’s comprehensive integration options. These include adapters for leading vulnerability assessment technologies such as Symantec’s ESM and NetIQ’s VM, as well as embedded assessment technology primarily concerned with compliance remediation.

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