Solutions for Policy Management

Many risks within the network perimeter could be mitigated if enterprise security policies were enforced.  Yet many companies do not have the systems in place to evaluate if their written IT polices are being followed, much less enforced.  Supported by the continuous monitoring on networked hosts, the C5 Compliance Platform provides the capability to develop actionable policies to be evaluated against the attributes being monitored, where an out of boundary condition for the policy will trigger an immediate notification to the administrator of the policy violation. 

There is a wide spectrum of corporate IT policies that may induce business or compliance risk if there are monitored, systematically evaluated, and brought back into compliance if required.  Examples that our customers have implemented include business continuity policies, SLA policies, and security policies al without needing to write a system script or have knowledge of the underlying OS commands.  For example, you might want to monitor a groups of mission critical database servers for hard disk utilization reaching a critical level, or monitor for rogue applications such as peer to peer applications that users often install on their laptops when they go home in the evening.  Security policies monitoring for required applications Anti-Virus, Anit-Spyware, Firewalls can easily be created and monitored on a continuous basis.

The C5 Compliance Platform makes it easier to create, manage, and monitor these policies.  Key features include a wizard driven policy creator with point and click command selection, policy templates included for Quick Start support.  Notifications of policy violations can be via email and/or policy violation alert, and may optionally include an enforcement action to bring the policy condition back into compliance.

 Audit.  Evaluate.  Comply.
 It really is that simple.