Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Sustainable Compliance


The roles of IT and information security departments are making compliance a sustainable process, rather than a painful project to dread each year

As compliance approaches mature, organizations' attitudes about the role and meaning of compliance are changing. The roles of IT and information security departments are shifting as well, helping to reshape the meaning of compliance and make it a sustainable process, rather than a painful project to dread each year. Whereas in the past IT and information security departments were frequently brought to the compliance party late in the game, only to find that many of the processes directly in scope for compliance were highly dependent on IT applications and systems, now there is greater recognition of the compliance roles IT and information security departments have.

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