Enables enterprises to access compliance reports customized to their needs
WASHINGTON, June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GARTNER IT Security Summit
-- BT today announced a new suite of security services that will
proactively provide a range of compliance reports to enterprise customers
based on those customers' discrete security and compliance requirements. As
part of BT Counterpane's Enterprise Compliance Framework offering, the new
services will simplify the reporting process and enable customers to
automatically receive compliance reports designed specifically to address
their internal corporate and auditing needs.
The suite of services offers monitoring capabilities, forensic-grade
archiving and customizable report templates suitable for audits against
major IT security standards, such as Sarbannes-Oxley and PCI. It provides a
broad range of security compliance reports, for example, tracking and
reporting details about who has accessed which systems and when, duration
of access by user and information on which users may have reset passwords,
altered access to secure databases or authorized other users priority
access to critical systems. And because the reports are customized by
customer, the new suite of compliance reports are dynamic, enabling
customers to modify and grow the menu of reports they receive as external
regulations and their company's internal requirements change over time.
"We designed the new suite of compliance reports to create a process
that ensures the right people within a business have the right access to
the right information -- day in and day out," explained Toby Weir-Jones,
director of product management, BT Counterpane. "Beyond the kinds of
monitoring information we've provided previously, customers have been
asking for an expanded portfolio of compliance reports, customized to their
specific requirements. They want to proactively receive such reports on a
frequent basis that cover a number of network and security components, any
one of which could impact the integrity of their information. So in direct
response to customers' requests, we've developed the new suite of
compliance reports to enhance customers' overall security practices."
BT Counterpane's compliance reporting suite of services has been
successfully piloted with a number of customers since last fall and will be
offered as a value-added service to customers globally beginning next
quarter.
About the Gartner IT Security Summit
The Gartner IT Security Summit hits the critical spot between strategic
planning and tactical advice. Gartner analysts, industry experts and IT
security practitioners deliver unbiased, realistic analysis on the current
state of IT security, as well as an independent overview of the market over
the next 12-18 months. Covering the depth and breadth of topics comprising
IT security today, the Gartner IT Security Summit has a single objective:
to bring to light the repeatable, manageable security processes needed to
address today's and tomorrow's threats. Additional information is available
at http://www.gartner.com/us/itsecurity
About BT
BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions
and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include
networked IT services; local, national and international telecommunications
services; higher-value broadband and internet products and services and
converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of
four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT
Wholesale.
In the year ended 31 March 2007, BT Group plc's revenue was 20,223
million pounds Sterling with profit before taxation of 2,484 million
pounds.
British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT
Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group.
BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York.
For more information, visit http://www.bt.com/aboutbt
SOURCE BT
 back to top
Related links:
http://www.bt.com/aboutbt
http://www.gartner.com/us/itsecurity
CONTACT:
Barbara Cattolica, +1-925-242-0882 office,
+1-415-309-2485 mobile, bcattolica@yahoo.com
|
