- An Osterman Research white paper, sponsored by MX Logic

Security costs are large & growing, with technical countermeasures dominated by on-premise licensed solutions. Companies wrestling with providing stronger security and meeting compliance requirements are seeking more efficient ways to provide security.

The collaborative benefits of Web 2.0 technologies have fueled rapid growth in online consumer markets and now are being adopted by businesses worldwide. With these technologies come new types of attack vectors.

The growing volume of user email messages is escalating storage requirements and increasing the pressure on traditional email archiving solutions. Maintaining email archives to meet security, compliance or business policies is a struggle, with traditional in-house solutions facing a never-ending cycle of decreasing performance and increasing investments in costly technology.

This whitepaper will examine PCI DSS and explain how Lumension® Compliance and IT Risk Management can help organizations reduce the cost of addressing compliance by streamlining and automating the IT audit process, unifying control and compliance frameworks, automating assessment and remediation processes, and enabling continuous monitor­ing of their compliance and IT risk management posture.

Published: September, 2009 - Success in today's dynamic business environment requires the organization to integrate, build, and support business process with an enterprise view of risk and compliance. Without a new approach to risk and compliance, the scattered and non-integrated risk and compliance approaches of the past fail and introduce greater risk and regulatory threats to the business.

Organizations today are finding themselves under increasing pressure, both legal and regulatory, to properly retain or delete documents. While policies and procedures for paper records may seem adequate, many companies find it difficult to translate those policies and requirements to electronically stored information (ESI) such as e-mail messages and electronic document files.

Although data privacy and identity theft have a higher profile in the minds of consumers, data retention issues can have a far greater financial impact on businesses. Every company, whether public or private, large or small, must have a policy and enforcement system to deal with the messages and files generated by the organization every day.