Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 Beta Now Available!

frasim — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:45:02 GMT

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...(read more)

Microsoft Survey

frasim — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:40:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

frasim — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:31:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Opportunity to participate in a Live meeting.

frasim — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:01:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Online Services and the Competitive Edge of a GRC Solution

frasim — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:55:00 GMT

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...(read more)

New TechNet Resource for GRC

frasim — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:07:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Address your GRC needs by leveraging your existing Microsoft investment!

frasim — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:57:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Are Your Clouds Available?

frasim — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:16:00 GMT

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...(read more)

New Compliance Management forum.

frasim — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:21:00 GMT

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.

frasim — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:07:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Microsoft Compliance Management Series BETA released

frasim — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:12:00 GMT

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...(read more)

What is Zermatt?

frasim — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:57:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Microsoft Regulatory Compliance Planning Guide Update

frasim — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:17:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

frasim — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:33:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Health Vault = Compliance

frasim — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:32:00 GMT

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...(read more)