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Selecting the right enterprise resource planning (ERP) software often poses a challenge for many businesses in the manufacturing industry. With so many options out there, it’s difficult to break down each potential application and choose the one that’s the best fit for your business. This Gartner report explains how ERP selection teams can come to a consensus and establish an understanding of all options by jointly populating and prioritizing a hierarchical, weighted ERP evaluation model. A structured evaluation model helps put all the cards on the table by explaining and justifying to internal stakeholders, external auditors, and vendors how and why an ERP software decision was made. Read the Gartner report and establish your own ERP evaluation model to see if the Epicor ERP solution is the right fit for your manufacturing business.

This book is a quick guide to understanding IT policy compliance. It surveys the best steps for preparing your organization's IT operations to comply with laws and regulations - and how to prove compliance to an auditor.

Challenge Businesses today must reduce the risk of security breaches to protect the valuable data within their organizations. At the same time, IT auditors are increasingly enforcing ever more stringent requirements on the business. The bottom line is that privileged accounts and privileged access are being targeted by hackers as a new attack surface and focused on by auditors who are insisting on greater controls around privileged accounts. Opportunity The right privileged access management solution provides comprehensive protection for your missioncritical servers with powerful, fine-grained controls over operating system-level access and privileged user actions. Capable of enforcing access controls on powerful native Superuser accounts—like the UNIX® and Linux® root and Microsoft® Windows® administrator—this system-level, host-based privileged access management solution controls, monitors and audits privileged user activity, improving security and simplifying audit and compliance. B

Las cuentas de usuario con privilegios, ya se usurpen, sean objeto de abuso o, simplemente, se usen de forma incorrecta, se encuentran en el corazón de la mayoría de las infracciones relativas a datos. Los equipos de seguridad evalúan, cada vez más, soluciones de gestión de accesos con privilegios (PAM) completas para evitar el perjuicio que podría provocar un usuario malintencionado con privilegios altos o un usuario con privilegios que está cansado, estresado o que, sencillamente, comete un error. La presión que ejercen los ejecutivos y los equipos de auditoría para reducir la exposición de la empresa aseguran el esfuerzo, pero las soluciones de PAM completas pueden acarrear costes ocultos, según la estrategia de implementación adoptada.

Businesses often come up with great ideas; when auditors come in six months later, they find that some tasks were done incorrectly. Auditing forward means addressing compliance and internal controls as part of the system and process design of a project or new strategy in order to identify potential holes and weaknesses where mistakes, omissions, or even fraud could happen. The Workday technology platform instantiates internal controls in business processes. These business processes are configurable without expensive IT coding and the overhead of the associated process. Therefore, considering, designing, and implementing real-time auditing integrated into the business processes allows the business to audit forward.

This IT audit checklist guide includes advice on assessing the effectiveness of change management in a variety of areas.   As companies grow more dependent on interdependent IT systems, the risks associated with untested changes in development and production environments have increased proportionately.

Assure SOX compliance and address key questions asked by SOX auditors with simple change management enhancement.

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Riverbed® SteelCentral™ NetAuditor plays an important role in ensuring compliance with the PCI security standards. This document explains the part played by each of the SteelCentral NetAuditor solutions.

Some IT and Security teams wonder if automated vulnerability management is important given the many pressing demands. The purpose of this paper is to help these IT and Security professionals evaluate their security posture and risk.

This survey shows how organizations leverage strategic risk management and mitigation solutions such as risk analysis, security information event management (SIEM), and vulnerability scanning as part of their overall risk and compliance programs.

Today’s threats to endpoints and data are more complex, more numerous, more varied —and changing every second. McAfee understands next-generation security in the context of your devices, additional protection technologies, and central management.

McAfee® Database Activity Monitoring automatically finds databases on your network, protects them with preconfigured defenses, and helps you build a custom security policy for your environment making it easier to demonstrate compliance to auditors.

Discover how leading organizations leverage performance management software to obtain commitment from senior management, forge effective partnerships with auditors, and monitor progress throughout the year.

With HIPAA audits now randomized, you must be prepared for them every day. And with state regulations requiring compliance-breach reporting, you must become your own auditor. HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the 1996 federal regulation that mandated health-data privacy.This regulation requires compliance by all insurers and health care providers, including physician’s offices, hospitals, health plans, employers, public health authorities, life insurers, clearinghouses, billing agencies, information systems vendors, service organizations, and universities.But that’s not all.

To effectively deal with the broad and complex requirements of Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security, you need to break the elements apart to provide enhanced clarity. This document deals with file integrity monitoring (FIM) for PCI, while providing practical technical guidance to help ensure PCI Compliance before your auditor shows up to develop the ROC.

At the time of a software audit, a SAM program helps you avoid increased license fees and penalties and keeps your employees engaged in your key initiatives rather than burdened by an auditor's requests for documentation.

All organizations depend on information to manage day-to-day operations, comply with regulations, gauge financial performance, and monitor strategic initiatives. This critical information resides in the organization's business records. As internal auditors conduct their annual risk assessment, they should consider how well business records are managed and assess the degree to which the risks to this information are understood.

For most organizations, compliance is a bottomless pit of cost and effort. Too many infrastructure components and configuration points, too much data and too many places to put it—there are just too many places for threats to hide.In this session, Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst Andras Cser shares how to prioritize security and compliance efforts. Specific topics include: - How your auditors are behaving; - Why risk-based prioritization is the only way to find threats; - The importance of context; - Forrester’s recommendations and best practices. Watch this webcast and learn how to make your organization’s journey to the cloud as safe as possible.

Organizations have traditionally viewed vulnerability scanners as a tactical product, largely commoditized and only providing value around audit time. But with limited resources and a real need to reduce risk, organizations need the ability to pull in threat-related data, combine it with an understanding of what is vulnerable, and figure out what is at risk. This report from Securosis outlines how yesterday's vulnerability scanners are evolving to meet this need, emerging as a much more strategic component of an organization's control set than in the past. Learn how vulnerability scanners are evolving to provide real value beyond vulnerability reports for auditors - emerging as a strategic component helping organizations effectively lower risks.

Read this Aberdeen Group research report, "Access Management: Efficiency, Confidence and Control" and learn how top performers protect access to information assets at lower cost while staying on top of compliance.

How mature is your information security policy program? Do you have a set of outdated documents stored in a binder or intranet site? Or do you have a documented management program that keeps your policies up to date, your users informed and your internal auditors sleeping at night?

AuditBoard’s OpsAudit platform is the only-purpose built audit technology, built for auditors, by auditors. Whereas other solutions in the GRC market are a “mile wide and an inch deep,” AuditBoard’s OpsAudit encompasses and streamlines all of the nuances associated with carrying out a world-class internal audit department. AuditBoard’s ease of use allows for auditors to spend all of their time with their audit customers and on their audit work, without suffering through administrative tasks or technology problems.

You are the CAE of a mature company sitting with your external auditor, ready to kick off planning for the upcoming year. You’ve always been on top of your controls environment, and expect this upcoming year to go smoothly. However, mid-way through discussing your new areas of focus, the conversation goes astray as your auditor starts throwing out terms like “IPE” or “Electronic Audit Evidence” and says a whole new set of evaluation points will have to occur for every control test in your environment.

Provide your users with visual cues that indicate your site is secure. Extended Validation SSL can facilitate online commerce by increasing visitor confidence and reducing the effectiveness of phishing attacks.