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Integrating Privacy, Audit and Compliance Initiatives in a Multi-System Enterprise Environment:

The Business Case for Multi-Level Security

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"You can say I ran this program every single day at midnight like my virus checker to see how I did each day and here are the records instead of saying ‘At the end of the month, I went through the paper and I read the advisory report and I read it on this system too -- no problems found.’ Which do you think is more defensible in court? This kind of tooling shows that this business made a good faith effort.”

-- Jim Porell, chief architect, zSeries software, IBM

 
Sponsored by: IBM
Report Abstract:
Not so long ago, security issues were viewed as a necessary evil – in many ways the life insurance policy of the IT world. Managers tackled those issues because it was prudent and wise to do so, not because there was a payoff for doing it right. But those were the old days, before a new generation of privacy, audit and compliance requirements began to realign the value proposition. As a consequence of meeting these requirements, organizations also are starting to reap new benefits in the form of customer loyalty and more-efficient business processes.