Are you aware whether your Enterprise has legal compliance on Sarbanes-Oxley or HIPAA?
First off what you should know about legal compliance is when it comes to the compliance matter on almost every business person's mind, Sarbanes-Oxley, there's good news and not so good news. The good news? Compliance can be an opportunity to help make your business more efficient, more profitable. The bad news? Many businesses underestimate what it takes to be compliant. Miles Consulting has the expertise to help you capitalize on the opportunity while minimizing the pain of financial reporting and auditing.
For the security and data confidentiality such companies must have internal policies and controls to ensure accountability as well as to protect corporate data and access to that data. Because IT systems are the tool with which corporations manage their financial systems, the systems need to be audited and companies must remediate issues to meet the spirit of the law. Third party auditors, usually from well-established accounting firms, are responsible for checking compliance.
Match with similar regulations within your SQL Server environment, then you must go with assessment configuration pack that is intended to help you establish and validate a desired configuration for your SQL Server environment in order to support specific compliance directives that are referred below:
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) - “Debate continues over the perceived benefits and costs of SOX. Supporters contend that the legislation was necessary and has played a useful role in restoring public confidence in the nation’s capital markets by, among other things, strengthening corporate accounting controls. Detractors contend that SOX was an unnecessary and costly government intrusion into corporate management that places U.S. corporations at a competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis foreign firms.”
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) - “The enactment of the Privacy and Security Rules has caused major changes in the way physicians and medical centers operate. While respect for patient privacy was already informally considered a cornerstone of medical professionalism, the complex legalities and potentially stiff penalties associated with HIPAA, as well as the increase in paperwork and the cost of its implementation, were causes for concern among physicians and medical centers.”
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European Union Data Protection Directive (EUDPD) - “This configuration pack contains configuration items intended to help you establish and validate a desired configuration for your SQL 2005 servers in order to support your European Union Data Protection Directive compliance efforts.”
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Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA) - “GLBA compliance is mandatory; whether a financial institution discloses nonpublic information or not, there must be a policy in place to protect the information from foreseeable threats in security and data integrity”
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Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) - “FISMA imposes a mandatory set of processes that must be followed for all information systems used or operated by a US Government federal agency or by a contractor or other organization on behalf of a US Government agency. “
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