Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 Beta Now Available!

2009-06-17T18:45:02Z

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 including Costco Wholesale Corporation, Continental Airlines, and Banque de Luxembourg have already downloaded and used this toolkit to date. Introducing Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 is...(read more)

Microsoft Survey

2009-01-29T00:40:00Z

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 you’ve used a Solution Accelerator within your organization, help us by completing this short survey ....(read more)

Now Live - TechNet Radio: IT Manager Dialog Series: Governance and Compliance

2009-01-28T18:31:00Z

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 Compliance In our monthly IT Manager Dialog Series we open up and talk to the experts both inside and outside of Microsoft about the latest trends impacting IT, and the resources and guidance available to help you plan and deploy the latest Microsoft technologies. The often...(read more)

Opportunity to participate in a Live meeting.

2009-01-22T01:01:00Z

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 IT GRC requirements.’ - Project Tribeca Team Does your IT team struggle to cope with the ever-changing demands of domestic and international governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) requirements? Microsoft is working to provide product configuration guidance...(read more)

Online Services and the Competitive Edge of a GRC Solution

2008-12-05T02:55:00Z

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's ability to demonstrably address GRC requirements—which is a daunting endeavor. Chances are that your organization is considerably smaller than that of your customers, resulting in customer demands that your organization might struggle to accommodate....(read more)

New TechNet Resource for GRC

2008-11-26T01:07:00Z

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 GRC investment. If you don't think you have one, take a look at the site; I challenge everyone to look carefully at the job aids provided there. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/regulatorycompliance/bb544955.aspx What are the job aids? Over the...(read more)

Address your GRC needs by leveraging your existing Microsoft investment!

2008-11-01T00:57:00Z

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 technology you may already own. This Accelerator helps you better understand how an IT process framework can help you implement GRC controls in your Microsoft infrastructure. The IT Compliance Management Guide includes a Microsoft® Operations Framework...(read more)

Are Your Clouds Available?

2008-10-08T18:16:00Z

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 generally takes some of the on-premise burden of holding or processing data and puts it to off-premise servers “in the cloud.” The big attraction of cloud computing has been lowered cost. A business that outsources its server services to the...(read more)

New Compliance Management forum.

2008-09-30T06:21:00Z

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/ Frank...(read more)

Risk Management.

2008-09-21T00:07:00Z

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 risk assessment you should take a look at the guide....(read more)

Microsoft Compliance Management Series BETA released

2008-09-11T01:12:00Z

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. Here is a bit of detail on the new Solution Accelerator: Managing compliance issues imposed by regulations and statutory requirements can be difficult to reconcile with regulations and standards such as PCI DSS, ISO 27002, AICPA GAPP, and COBIT. An additional...(read more)

What is Zermatt?

2008-08-18T22:57:00Z

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 of new laws, new regulations, changes to older regulations, and new interpretations. The true value of any tool or technology that we use to deal with these regulations is not merely in how well it handles static regulation, but how well it handles the...(read more)

Microsoft Regulatory Compliance Planning Guide Update

2008-07-28T17:17:00Z

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 and expectations. The small size of some organizations can also complicate an IT manager's approach to the problem by delaying the deployment of more advanced enterprise management technologies. Many questions must be addressed prior to any changes in IT:...(read more)

How to Use AccessChk.exe for Security Compliance Management secguide blog!

2008-07-21T21:33:00Z

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 works and the benefits of using the tool. The second part takes a look at the using the tool with Configuration Manager’s DCM feature, and how the Security Compliance Management toolkit benefits from the efforts. To read the complete article check...(read more)

Health Vault = Compliance

2008-07-18T21:32:00Z

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 with your family. Ask yourself these questions: When was the last time you got a complete physical? What was the name of that medication (which did not sit well with your stomach) that you were taking last year? Have your kids received all their immunization...(read more)