COMPLIANCE

Sarbanes Oxley, ISO 27001/2, PCI DSS, Government Connect CoCo, GPG13, ITIL...

Using IT compliance to your advantage

Does compliance confound you?

Rewind to the Enron scandal in 2001 and IT compliance was just a heavy burden that organisations were forced to take on. Now IT compliance is an opportunity too. Regulations led to much closer scrutiny of what the IT infrastructure was doing. Most came with heavy financial penalties for non-compliance so organisations could not afford to go without.

What generally gets overlooked with compliance is that it is an ongoing process. Just because we’re not reading scandal fuelled press articles every day doesn’t mean Sarbanes Oxley compliance has gone away. The only difference now is that IT is also tasked with managing compliance of ISO 27001 and ISO 27002, Local Government Code of Connection (CoCo) incorporating GPG13, PCI DSS and many more. IT must find a cost efficient and beneficial way of managing multiple regulatory frameworks in tandem and continually.

Smart organisations are also waking up to the fact that compliance actually creates efficiencies such as reduced outages, improved security and less risk. It’s not just about a tick in a box, it’s about spending less, working the business harder and avoiding costs you just don’t need.

Being truly on top of IT compliance requires constant cross sectional visibility of your entire IT infrastructure. It relies on having the tools and technologies that are best capable of interrogating, understanding and reporting what is happening on your network.

Let EQALIS help you take advantage of your IT compliance burden.