Start-up bolsters former PricewaterhouseCoopers compliance platform
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Ann Bednarz
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Network World
, 10/27/2006
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Brabeion Software this week unveiled a dashboard product designed to help companies see at a glance the compliance status of their IT assets and what needs to be done to meet audit and regulatory requirements.
Brabeion Compliance Manager works in conjunction with a company’s existing vulnerability-assessment and configuration-management
systems to collect compliance data. The software then reports what an organization must do to meet regulations and remediate
gaps.
Based in McLean, Va., Brabeion was formed in 2005 to continue development of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Enterprise Security Architecture
System (ESAS), a software platform built to help the firm’s clients manage their security policies and controls. The Web-based ESAS platform today is known as Brabeion Compliance Center (BCC). Brabeion’s newly announced
Compliance Manager can work in conjunction with BCC to give staff an immediate glimpse of audit scenarios.
Users of the dashboard can configure it to display the particular data each needs. For example, security and compliance officers
can drill into specific departments or view compliance levels across an enterprise. Internal and external auditors can examine
specific controls and view any required remediation efforts. IT staff can use the data to prioritize their remediation projects.
Brabeion Compliance Manager is intended for companies that face ongoing audits from multiple regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Federal Information Security Management Act, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Because each type of audit has different systems,
requirements and time frames, companies can wind up with overlapping compliance initiatives. Brabeion Compliance Manager can
help eliminate redundancy in documentation, monitoring and reporting processes, the vendor says.
Analysts say it pays to take a consolidated approach to compliance. Companies that choose one-off solutions for each regulatory
challenge they face will spend 10 times more on IT solutions for compliance than their counterparts that take a sustainable,
programmatic approach, according to research firm Gartner.
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