This paper offers the industry's only solution for automating detailed reporting that ensures Enterprise Configuration Visibility™ – reducing the time and cost associated with IT control, compliance, and security, and ensuring the highest levels of availability and performance for your organization.
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Top Ten Keys to Gaining TMEnterprise Configuration VisibilityRegulatory compliance. Server virtualization. IT Service Management. Business Service Management. Business Continuity planning. Vulnerabilityassessments. Information Life-cycle Management. Change Management. Service Level Agreements. IT departments are inundated with a never-ending, diverse list of standards, regulations, initiatives, projects and best practices. As unique as the tasks are related to each of these challenges,they all hold one thing in common. Success depends on being able to produce understandable reports validating expected settings, whether tointernal policies or external regulatory standards. TMEcora offers the industry's only solution for automating detailed reporting that ensures Enterprise Configuration Visibility -reducing the time andcost associated with IT control, compliance, and security, and ensuring the highest levels of availability and performance for your organization.
1 Automate IT Audit and Compliance Reporting and Processes
In this era where new compliance regulations are becoming law on an increasingly frequent basis, organizations are now facing multipleaudits from internal auditors and external regulators. With a constant need to prepare for the next audit, critical IT projects can get delayedand hold the business back from implementing important technologies that could provide a competitive advantage.Ensuring the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data is theprimary objective of these regulations. Each law requires you to prove 12.05.2006Sarbanes-Oxleycontrol over the information in your IT infrastructure and who has Confirm Access Rightsaccess to it. Failure to demonstrate compliance can lead to costlydisclosures in a corporation's annual report, substantial financial Report Namepenalties, jail time, brand-tarnishing press coverage and more. Domain and Local User RightsLocal AdministratorsManual efforts to collect data and generate reports validating Disabled and Locked Out User Accountscompliance are cumbersome, time-consuming, error-prone, and, Local Group Membershipultimately, impractical. However, with Ecora Software, you canautomate IT audit and compliance reporting. In fact, you can use pre- Restrict NULL Session Accessinstalled report templates to perform a pre-audit of your IT Secured Removable Mediaenvironment, pinpointing any existing security misconfigurations in Security Event Log Accessyour servers. Then, after any problems have been identified and Share and NTFS Permissions on Shared Foldersremediated, you can generate up-to-date reports as a deliverable for User Rights by Computerthose auditing your infrastructure.
Ecora has worked with thousands of world-wide customers to design out-of-the-box report templates forevery major regulatory compliance.
2 Monitor and Identify Any Possible System Change
Controlling the complex relationships among the millions ofconfiguration items in your infrastructure could be the differencebetween efficiently delivering uninterrupted service to employees andcustomers or struggling with intermittent service outages, costlyslowdowns in transmitting information, and the potential of a securityvulnerability being exposed. Maintaining control requires the ability toidentify the myriad of changes taking place throughout yourenvironment and quickly pinpointing any potential problems. Evenwith a change control process in place, it's impossible to validate thatapproved changes were made correctly-and that there weren't anynew, unanticipated changes. Even more critical is the need to findany unauthorized changes that may have been made outside thechange control process.Only Ecora solutions can identify and report on all configurationchanges-both approved and otherwise-across virtually anyoperating system, database, application, and device on yourinfrastructure. The value of Ecora's reporting begins with our patented technology for collecting enterprise-wide configurationinformation. Data can then be integrated into many of today's leading CMDB platforms.
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3 Accelerate ITIL Adoption
The ITIL concept emerged in the 1980s, when the Britishgovernment determined that the level of IT service quality ITIL Features Benefitsprovided to them was not sufficient. Large companies and Best Practicesgovernment agencies in Europe adopted the framework Configuration Auditor Professional colle... [download for more]
