Compliance White Paper Focuses on IT Resiliency
A new important white paper on IT compliance issues has been released by Business Continuity Today.
Entitled "Compliance and the New Reality of IT Resiliency", the white paper -- presented as a chapter to BCT's continuing series on the topic of business continuity -- discusses the requirements for developing a organization-wide strategy for dealing with issues of compliance.
A preview of the table of contents is available here .
Says author Thomas M. Stockwell "Satisfying the requirements of so many compliance regulations and standards isn't a single problem. You can't buy a piece of software or hardware to satisfy Sarbanes-Oxley or any other regulation. And IT can't wrestle this problem to the ground alone. It takes awareness by management officials, study and recommendations by disinterested and knowledgable parties, and coordination with auditors and managers to bring the organization into compliance."
In his white paper, Stockwell -- who has more than 25 years of experience working with management and IT -- stresses both the processes the organization must embrace and the commonalities between compliance regulations that enable IT to position itself for success. The most important of these common threads is IT's business continuity plan."Every compliance regulation or standard that impacts IT has -- at its base -- the requirement for a comprehensive strategy for protecting the information assets of the organization," Stockwell said. "The newest wrinkles of post-ENRON compliance regulations relate to how long and how available information assets must be available."
Charting the connections between compliance regulations, organizational processes, and resulting requirements for IT resiliency is the theme of the paper.
"Compliance and the New Reality for IT Resiliency " was sponsored by Vision Solutions -- a leading supplier of High Availability solutions for the IBM System i and System p computing platforms. The paper is 32 pages and is freely available (after registration) at www.businesscontinuitytoday.com .