
Easing the Enterprise Audit and Compliance Burden - Overview
Clearly what enterprises require is a solution that automates previously manual processes, ensures accurate reporting, and keeps audit and compliance policies in check.
Maintaining tight control over the security audit and compliance process is a critical imperative for today’s enterprises. To comply, enterprises must show that they have implemented procedures to prevent unauthorized users from accessing corporate and personal data. Even if enterprises have the means to efficiently conduct audits, they often lack the tools necessary to prevent policy and compliance violations from reoccurring. As a result, security vulnerabilities remain a constant threat, exposing companies to potential sanctions and erode the confidence of investors and customers.
As a result, the process of meeting compliance regulations such as HIPAA, SOX, and PCI, as well as requirements set by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), represents one of IT’s most critical investments. Vanguard Integrity Professionals provides a powerful suite of software applications designed to reduce the audit and compliance burden.
Audit and Compliance Solutions
Vanguard Analyzer™ - delivers comprehensive system integrity, verification and auditing solutions that include assessment, risk identification, threat analysis, and specific instructions on how to fix identified problems. Analyzer simplifies the audit process and provides an in-depth overview of current system status, identifies exposures in simple business risk language, and prioritizes findings for immediate action. The new version adds support for duplicate module analysis to make it easier to research the validity of datasets, and increased filtering of audit findings resulting in more focused and meaningful reports.
Vanguard Configuration Manager™ - provides the fastest, most cost-effective and accurate method to verify that mainframe security configuration controls are in compliance with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) developed for the Department of Defense (DoD). Organizations using Vanguard Configuration Manager can perform mainframe DISA STIG checks and report findings in just a few hours instead of the hundreds or thousands of hours it may take using standard methods.
Vanguard Enforcer™ - provides real-time intrusion protection, detection and management solutions for the mainframe that are proven to prevent human error and deliberate attacks. Enforcer protects critical data and other resources by ensuring that an organization's security and compliance standards, policies, rules and settings are in place and enforced. The new version is EAL3+ certified and includes support for maximum-length static system symbols and an upgraded, easier to use ISPF user interface and administration guide.
Vanguard inCompliance™ - delivers continuous auditing to verify system compliance with an organization's set security policies. inCompliance provides an instant overview of an organization's entire RACF environment, detailed views of any compliancy check, immediate identification of high-risk situations and potential compliancy violations, and recommends corrective actions where appropriate. The new version includes baselines of data set profiles, easier compliance reporting and backend database support for DB2 UDB for Windows.
Vanguard Policy Manager™ - Vanguard Policy Manager reduces security risks and assists organizations in meeting regulatory compliance requirements. Designed to help enforce security policies and ensure that administrators cannot issue unauthorized commands, Vanguard Policy Manager enables security officers to precisely control who has authority to execute specific commands.
