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Enabling IT Compliance

Many public sector organisations have to comply with industry regulations and best practices including ITIL, ISO/IEC 27001:2005, the Manual of Protective Security, CESG InfoSec Memoranda and HMG InfoSec Standards. Under pressure to provide strong security for their critical information infrastructure and communications capabilities, they must also ensure that digital records are made readily accessible to the public through efficient data retention, discovery and retrieval. Unfortunately a shortage of manpower and funds, coupled with the sheer number of regulations, has left many organisations struggling to meet compliance requirements.

Symantec offers proven IT Compliance solutions for security, email archiving, policy management, and more to help public sector organisations achieve and maintain compliance in a cost-efficient way. By making compliance easier and reducing the need for organisations to develop specialist knowledge in the implementation or management of legislation and regulations, we help organisations to:

• Define, measure and report on the compliance of information systems against security policies, standards and regulations.
• Demonstrate compliance with security policies and government regulations.
• Establish a flexible archiving framework to enable the discovery of content held within email, file system and collaborative environments.
• Enforce IT security policy throughout the network on managed and unmanaged endpoints.
• Provide automated management of deviations from security configuration standards.
• Lower the cost of compliance by reducing and automating assessment activities across multiple regulations using a single set of universal controls.

“We now have a copy of each and every message that comes in and goes out. It’s no longer the responsibility of the user to check they have stored the email or file - we do it automatically on their behalf. We have guaranteed copies of every email and file, which plays a major part in ensuring Gwynedd Council meets all current and emerging compliance legislation.”

Gwynfor Roberts, IT Manager, Gwynedd Council