Identify, classify, and protect data across targeted file servers in your organization The Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce that the Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2008 R2 is now available for download. Download...

The Microsoft Solution Accelerators Team has a new IT governance, risk, and compliance (IT GRC) Solution Acclerator beta release you should check out. It’s called the the Data Classification Toolkit (DCT) for Windows Server 2008 R2 and it helps...

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be available in the near future. Are you thinking about deploying these new operating systems? Get a head start with Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 Beta . Over 680,000 Microsoft customers and partners...

In SAT we value your interest in our work. We would like to ask you to take a few minutes of your day and fill out a quick survey. Tell us how we're doing, and what we can do better. We want to hear what you think about Solution Accelerators —if...

A new technet Radio segment on our work has just been completed, if your interested in hearing a bit more about our work on compliance take a listen to the audio cast. January 27, 2009 IT Manager Dialog Series: Governance and...

The compliance team would like to invite you to a live meeting where you can share your ideas on compliance. If this interested you please read on. ‘Reduce the cost and effort of configuring and validating Microsoft products to address customer...

If your organization's primary revenue stems from an online services model (SAAS, ASP, etc.), you're intimately familiar with the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) requirements of your customers. Deals can be won and lost depending on your organization...

Today we published a new and improved TechNet site that focuses on governance, risk, and compliance (GRC)! This site will provide you with all kinds of great information about tools and capabilities to help you realize the full potential of your Microsoft...

This Solution Accelerator can save you time and money by shifting your governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) efforts from people to technology. Use its configuration guidance to help efficiently address your organization’s GRC objectives with Microsoft...

Clouds Are on the Rise Cloud computing has been variously described as utility computing, hosting applications off-premises, on-demand computing, Web-based computing, software-as-a-service, and in many other ways. No matter the description, its implementation...

The Compliance team from Solution Accelerators would like to invite you to join in conversation on our newly minted compliance forum. Bookmark the forum page :- http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/compliancemanagement/threads/ ...

Within the Solution Accelerators library, many nuggets get overlooked. One of these nuggets is the Security Risk Management Guide . If your interested in a good simple to follow guide that can help you negotiate the issues around a Qualitative, or Quantitative...

The Solution Accelerators - Security and Compliance team has released a beta version of its first set of guides in the Compliance Management Series. This effort expands on the work done in the Regulatory Compliance Planning Guide published in 2006. ...

SOX doesn’t matter as much as a “change of SOX.” HIPAA does not matter as much as a change to HIPAA. Basil I does not matter so much as does Basel II. Current regulations don’t matter as much as the next regulation does. We live in an endless torrent...

One of our Solution Acclerator teams is looking for your help, please join us for this great discussion this Wednesday for a Live meeting; IT personnel often feel unprepared to meet management's need for IT compliance because of myriad definitions...

In a partner secguide article we invited Michael Tan, one of our senior program managers, to introduce a new feature in the recently updated Sysinternals tool called AccessChk. The first part of a two-part article discusses how the new AccessChk feature...

I don’t know about you, but for me it's a challenge to keep up with the health information of myself and family. If you haven't seen it yet you should check out HealthVault . The current version allows you to collect, store and share health information...

Welcome Back! As a reader of this blog, I felt it was important to try and bring some life back to the site. So today we start to publish NEW content, about complex issues such as GRC! Over the next several months, this blog will explore where...

Excerpted from SANS NewsBites (see www.sans.org to subscribe): --Credit Card Companies Update PCI (8 September 2006) The five major credit card companies, American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa International...

The most important but sometimes overlooked aspect of regulatory compliance is in getting the buy-in of the people who will be doing the work. Getting management buy-in is a pretty simple matter of discussing economics and the negative impact that non...

Spreadsheets are ubiquitous. For many organizations they are a critical resource and essential to business processes. With Office 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 it will be much easier to maintain a sustainable spreadsheet compliance framework...

I am seeing a disturbing trend in the industry and I am going to complain. Over the past few months, I have seen requests for clarity for SOX compliance auditing from IT managers through their contacts at Microsoft. Questions are being posed by these...

Are your regulatory compliance (RC) policies being followed the way you expect them to be? Helping employees comply may be easier if your RC implementation is broken into manageable steps. JC Cannon provides some excellent advice for breaking down the...

Yesterday, Microsoft released the Regulatory Compliance Planning Guide. This guide is available at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=56114 . The Planning Guide: shows IT professionals how they can use an IT controls framework to help address...

The word is framework, of course. What did you think? It is important that we establish some way of defining the processes we are going to use and where they fit into the overall schema for our enterprise. I am not going to say that you should adopt...