pdf Five Ways to Reduce Your Audit Tax  Taxes are certainly not fun, but there is something worse: an audit. Combine the two in a risk and compliance scenario and you have the onerous "audit tax," a figurative term used to describe the expenses a company incurs when deploying resources and manpower to satisfy the burgeoning set of internal and external compliance and audit mandates. The good news is that there are ways to reduce the audit tax burden. This whitepaper outlines five methods organizations should consider to streamline their compliance efforts and thereby reduce their audit tax.

pdf IT GRC: Managing Risk, Improving Visibility, and Reducing Operating Costs  For all organizations with current or planned initiatives in the area of IT governance, risk management, and compliance (IT GRC), this report describes the policy, planning, process, and organizational elements of successful implementations. Companies with top results position themselves to make better-informed business decisions, in the context of the organization's requirements for compliance and also their appetite for risk.

pdf  Reducing the Cost of Achieving PCI Compliance with Lumension® Compliance and IT Risk Management  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.

pdf  Reduce the Cost of Achieving HIPPA Compliance with Lumension Solutions  Healthcare organizations face a host of HIPAA Security Rule compliance challenges with the move to put patient medical records online.Lumension helps organizations address these compliance challenges by providing the proactive risk management and the required audit readiness to meet many aspects of the HIPAA Security Rule.

pdf Achieving NERC Cyber Security Standards Compliance with Lumension  The North American Electric Reliability Corporation(NERC) is a non-profit corporation chartered to ensure that the bulk electric system in North America is reliable, adequate and secure. Lumension addresses NERC compliance challenges and ensures audit-readiness by delivering end-to-end vulnerability management, endpoint protection and data protection solutions.

pdf Massachusetts Data Protection Law  By January 1, 2010, all organizations with operations and/or customers in the state of Massachusetts will be required to follow comprehensive information security requirements regarding both paper and electronic records containing personal information. These requirements include enforcing password security, encrypting all personal information stored on laptops and removable devices and ensuring up-to-date firewall protection, operating system patches and the latest versions of security agent software. Read this whitepaper to learn how your organization can meet the necessary requirements and improve its security practices.