A survey conducted last week shows that while enterprises seek to
leverage compliance-driven security expenditures for general security
and risk management tasks, they find it difficult to accomplish with
their existing solutions.
The online survey of 5,000 IT professionals charged with
compliance/audit responsibilities at enterprises with revenues between
$200 million and $1 billion was conducted by PacketMotion™, the pioneers
of User Activity Management, an innovative approach to improving the
operational efficiency of audit and compliance controls.
The survey revealed that enterprises highly value leveraging compliance
and audit solutions for more general security requirements. When asked,
“How important is it for you to leverage your compliance/audit solution
investments for general risk management and internal security,” 84
percent of survey respondents said “important” or “very important.” This
is consistent with the recent trend of budgets that are focused on
meeting compliance regulations and internal audit control objectives.
With less money available for solutions that address reduction of
business risk, IT professionals are seeking to leverage their compliance
and audit solutions to do more.
The survey also demonstrated how much difficulty organizations are
having trying to achieve this goal. Queried as to the degree to which
they are currently able to leverage their compliance/audit solution
investments for general risk management and internal security, 76
percent said “in a limited way” or “unable to.” Unfortunately, most
compliance solutions were designed to deliver only what auditors
require, and trying to use them more broadly is usually either
impractical, or requires too much staff time. This was also reflected in
the survey results: 60 percent of respondents said they were unable to
achieve this leverage because they either didn’t feel the solutions they
had could be used this way, or because they didn’t have the staff
resources.
“The results of this survey articulate a deep desire by enterprises who
have already made investments in meeting compliance/audit
requirements--the alphabet soup of PCI DSS, SOX, HIPAA and HITECH--to be
able to use these investments for other areas of responsibility such as
protecting their networks from general risk and internal threats,”
explained Paul Smith, CEO at PacketMotion. “We’ve found that
PacketMotion’s ability to meet that desire through a single, low-risk,
operationally-efficient solution is the key reason our sales have
continued to grow even in these challenging times.”
About PacketMotion
PacketMotion’s User Activity Management (UAM) solutions enable mid- to
large-sized enterprises to simplify and lower the cost of meeting their
compliance/audit requirements (PCI DSS, SOX, HIPAA, etc.) while
delivering security functionality such as the ability to immediately
stop user behavior that violates internal policies. A Gartner “Cool
Vendor” company, PacketMotion combines patent-pending software with
massive computing power to monitor individual user activity at the
application level. The PacketSentry™ appliance operates out of band with
no impact on network performance, and it installs in less than one day,
typically reducing compliance-related capital and operating costs by as
much as 80% compared to a suite of siloed tools.
PacketMotion and PacketSentry are registered trademarks of PacketMotion.
Copyright © PacketMotion 2009.
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