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Symantec Upgrades IT Policy Compliance Offering

Symantec Corp. has launched an upgrade to its bv-Control portfolio, Symantec Control Compliance Suite 8.2, which promises to help customers reduce the cost and complexity of IT policy compliance through automated assessment of policies against industry regulations, standards and best practices.

Symantec Control Compliance Suite allows customers to produce ‘evidence of review’ reporting to facilitate management review of access controls as mandated by Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations to prove that privilege grants conform to access needs. This is supplied through granular, detailed entitlement reports that show who has access to specific information, what each individual has access to, and who the business owner is for the data.

Customers are offered powerful closed-loop identification and resolution to find and eliminate security vulnerabilities. Symantec Control Compliance Suite provides detailed remediation instructions to correct deviations and integrates with existing change control ticketing systems, such as Remedy and HP Service Desk.

In addition, IT administrators can establish baseline configurations for all major operating systems by creating a custom technical standard or building a reference template from pre-existing internal standards. Technical standards can be exported for archive and business continuity purposes. Technical Standard Packs are available for the following operating systems and applications: Windows, UNIX, Linux, NetWare, SQL Server, Oracle, and Exchange.

Symantec Control Compliance Suite 8.2 includes agentless UNIX reporting, Oracle patch assessment and database discovery, and reporting and database activity auditing on SQL Server 2005.


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