Compliance, compliance, compliance. Sometimes it looks to the people involved in information systems as if you just cannot get away from this issue of compliance. It is an enigma that has been troubling organizations since the beginning of the millennium. Everyone wants to be compliant because the law says they have to. And, if not the law, then it comes from the industry standards and subsequent customer expectations that dictate the acceptance of the organization in the business.
Many people feel they don't understand compliance but it's actually quite simple. Compliance is all about being compliant with or being in accordance with or conforming to the demands made by the rulings imposed on your company. For this reason it is frequently termed 'regulatory compliance' Such rulings include the much-talked-of Sarbanes-Oxley Bill of 2002 (also known as SOX or SarBox) and the more recent Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
To be "in compliance" you must have a ruling or standard against which you can compare your organization and its information systems. Compliancy is a relative concept.
In these pages, we discuss compliance from the specific angle of data security. The various rulings that impact publicly listed companies and other affected organizations have demands for such areas as restrictions against unauthorized access, privacy of data, monitoring of activity in information systems, data changes and the ability to audit that activity. The more satisfactorily these demands are met, the better compliance has been achieved in the organization.
Bsafe Information Systems produces software products which give companies and organizations the added security, monitoring and auditing capabilities they need to achieve the required level of compliance.
If you are looking for a compliance solution for your company, click on the appropriate box below:
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Compliance in iSeries Systems
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Compliance in Mainframe Systems
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Compliance in MS SQL Server and Windows
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Compliance in the Multi-Platform Enterprise
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