Symantec Automates Policy Compliance

April 13th, 2006: Symantec has announced new compliance management software designed to help policy creation, assess compliance to written policy, and lower the overall cost of compliance through automation.

Symantec says that Policy Manager 3.0 dramatically reduces the time and costs associated with managing the policy lifecycle, from policy creation to regulatory mapping and compliance assessment.

It automates policy management, enables new policies to be created from scratch, allows existing policies to be imported into the database, and if no policy exists, it also provides pre-written sample policies.

"Large organisations often have many regulations with which they must demonstrate compliance," says Eric Ogren, security analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. "Security teams must match alerts of policy violations with specific regulatory clauses and make recommendations to efficiently bring the enterprise back into compliance. Symantec clientless technology effectively lowers the administrative costs of corporate compliance programs."

Symantec BindView Policy Manager 3.0 and Symantec Compliance Manager 3.0 will be available in March 2006.

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