Identity Driven Compliance & Security Monitoring

Compliance Requirements

Your company is forward thinking. Wikis and e-mail have replaced memos and your IT administrators can fully provision a new employee 5,000 miles away. Even your buildings are smart, adjusting energy consumption based on real-time needs. So why do you still try to meet complex audit requirements manually? Maybe you haven't found any other way. Your data is scattered throughout the enterprise and you don't have good processes in place to collect, correlate, organize and report on that data. Without a strategic approach, you must check access records and user accounts individually, to see who has been accessing what, when and how.

Identity Driven Compliance and Security Monitoring will help you lower costs by:
• Reducing the staff hours required to complete audits
• Improving incident response time
• Eliminating fees and penalties incurred during failed audits

This means that you're stuck manually sifting information, which almost always means human error and oversight come into play. To avoid those errors, you put all your people on the job, full time. When that's not enough, you hire contractors. But both cost your company money, either in lost productivity or in high fees.

Even with all these measures in place to ensure a passing grade, you still might fall short. One missing piece of information, one detail reported incorrectly, or one unmet requirement can mean serious consequences in the form of fines, penalties, a damaged reputation, lost customers and even a repeat audit. So what happens when you fail an audit? You throw more money at more contractors and dedicate more staff hours, all so you can hopefully pass. But hoping isn't enough for you. You want to know that every time you face an audit or need to meet compliance requirements—and that's always—you have the right information, at the right time for the right cost.

Eliminate Manual Processes

We know you need to meet every requirement and pass every audit, every time—and we have Identity Driven Compliance and Security Monitoring to help you get there. Now you can automatically collect and correlate data, so when it's time for an audit, you have the information you need.

However, compliance only ends with an audit, it doesn't begin there. You need systems in place that will detect unauthorized incidents and remediate any problems. The systems should also monitor for future occurrences and provide complete, accurate, intelligible reports to prove those systems are working. And that's exactly what Novell provides.

With Identity Driven Compliance and Security Monitoring, Novell delivers tools that answer to your overall business plan and compliance efforts. And because they are automatic and can be managed from a central location, they drastically reduce the manual work that normally accompanies an audit. Thus you will lower costs throughout your enterprise.

Simplified Compliance

Identity Driven Compliance and Security Monitoring from Novell automates your company's compliance efforts and cuts costs by eliminating manual processes. Our solutions simplify compliance because they gather and correlate data from across your enterprise, giving you comprehensive information that is easy to understand. And you can prove compliance status easily with our out-of-the-box reports, so your IT staff can focus on value-added projects, rather than on passing the next audit.

Increasing Regulations and Standards

Your business is constantly facing increasing pressure from government and industry regulations and standards, such as SOX, HIPAA, Basel II, PCI-DSS, ITIL, COBIT and others. Not only is it difficult and time consuming to enforce business policies related to these regulations, but it is also becoming more difficult to pass audits.

With Identity Driven Compliance and Security Monitoring, you can easily prove compliance and resolve identity, security and access problems before they disrupt business or threaten your network or compliance status.

Your company often meets compliance requirements through manual effort, which is an expensive and time-intensive task that takes people away from projects that grow your business. Every time your company faces an audit, you have to repeat these processes—and that gets very expensive very fast. In addition, compliance standards change quickly to keep up with the growth in technology. And every time a regulatory compliance requirement changes, you have to change with it, or risk failing audits, incurring fines and even losing your right to accept credit card payments.

As compliance standards grow and mature, auditors' expectations are also increasing. It's no longer enough to know you're compliant—now you have to prove it. Even if you have compliance processes and tools in place, you may need better solutions. You need solutions that will grow with you and the ever-changing IT landscape. So no matter how complex standards become or how many you must meet, you will always be able to prove compliance.

Compliance with Government, Internal, and Industry Regulations

If you need to comply with government, internal or industry regulations—and everyone does—then you need Identity Driven Compliance and Security Monitoring from Novell. This solution automatically logs and tracks all user access for auditing purposes, simplifying the entire compliance process. This makes it easier to track breaches in security should they ever occur. Novell products also alert security personnel to the breach, allowing them to react to the problem and stop the violation in real-time. They also deliver solid confirmation that only authorized users have access to sensitive information and systems.

And with Novell Sentinel™, part of the Identity Driven Compliance and Security Monitoring solution, you can create detailed reports that correlate data from across the enterprise. Novell products and solutions can easily collect all the data you need for audits and give you a comprehensive view of your compliance picture. Using Novell solutions, you can collect and correlate disparate security and compliance event data from throughout the network and analyze the data in real-time to help you identify and respond to security incidents and policy compliance violations.

Prove Compliance

To ensure compliance, it's no longer enough just to have the processes in place. You must be able to prove that they're implemented and effective. That's why we give you an IT controls monitoring and auditing solution to help you demonstrate compliance with government, industry and internal standards. And we do it through automating security monitoring and reporting. So no matter how complex and mature audits become, you can simplify and ensure regulatory compliance.

Reduce Security Management Expenses

You need to reduce security management expenses—without exposing your organization to unnecessary risk. But you also need to correlate security and access issues with actual users or endpoints. To keep your enterprise safe, you need effective security controls that not only alert administrators that a breach or violation of policy has occurred (or will), but must also tie the breach to a specific identity. Making that correlation manually, however, requires a lot of time—time that you should be spending on value-add projects. And until the connection is made and the issue is resolved, your business is vulnerable.

Your organization can't run at peak efficiency if you are forever worrying about security issues. That's why we provide automated control of the security processes that you need, based on your individual users' identities, so you have the freedom to turn your attention back to what matters most to you-growing your business.

This problem is compounded when employees have access to different systems across the enterprise. Their various roles create multiple opportunities for separation of duties violations, whether intended or not. Each of your systems is managed independently, and you don't have a centralized access control process, which means that violations often go undetected. This lack of control and insight opens the door to insider threats, information theft and other problems that separation of duties and standards are created to prevent.

In addition, if these violations go undetected and unremediated, your business is held accountable. You could be slapped with stiff fines and restrictions that will keep your organization from functioning at its best. What you need is a centrally controlled, low-cost, automated solution that will help you enforce separation of duties policies and keep your enterprise secure. What you need is Identity Driven Compliance and Security Monitoring from Novell.

Unify Digital Identities

With Identity Driven Compliance and Security Monitoring, you can automatically enforce every policy you set. Using Novell Identity Manager, part of the comprehensive solution, you can unify digital identities across all business systems in the enterprise so that when you create or change an identity in the authoritative system, the new information is automatically propagated to all appropriate systems. This helps you stay in compliance with your company's separation of duties policies, preventing someone from being both a purchaser and an orderer, for example.

In addition, Novell increases security and ensures separation of duties by delivering:

• Automated user provisioning: Novell solutions automatically grant and revoke access to users in real-time, based on their roles within your organization. This ensures that only the right people have access to the right information.
• Automated policy enforcement: Novell automates the entire security process, from monitoring for policy violations, to identifying, logging and responding to them—all in real-time.
• Automated, secure access: No matter where your users are working, Novell solutions deliver the same secure access, whether they are inside or outside the firewall. And we do it based on users' identities, so you can be sure your information is safe from unauthorized viewers.

Increase Employee Efficiency and Productivity

To maximize your business opportunities, you need every employee in your organization working on value-add projects. Unfortunately, dealing with important, but time-consuming security issues—such as password resets, unauthorized access, insecure access points and user provisioning—are not the types of activities that help your business grow. Identity Driven Compliance and Security Monitoring from Novell automates the processes that consume your users' time and resources, enabling them to increase efficiency and productivity.

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS)

Credit cards are everywhere. So, to keep your business competitive, you've got to have the technology to accept, authorize and manage credit card data. And if you have credit card capabilities, you must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS).

However, that's not as easy as it sounds. PCI-DSS is not a single standard; it requires you to comply with everything from security management, to policies, to procedures to network architecture and software design. In addition, you have to meet all these requirements in a specific (and usually short) amount of time. And if you miss those deadlines, credit card companies can impose all sorts of restrictions on your business. They can enforce monetary fines and even revoke your right to accept credit card payments.

By deploying Novell Identity Manager as part of your comprehensive compliance and security solution, you can reduce the amount of time your IT staff spends on identity management by 75 percent.

To complicate matters, PCI-DSS doesn't stay the same. It's continually changing—but no matter how much it changes, you must remain compliant. If you don't, the credit card companies can publicize the violations associated with your business, potentially ruining the good reputation you've worked so hard to gain.

You really don't have much of a choice: comply with PCI-DSS, or suffer penalties, fines and restrictions. However, you're worried that complying with this complex standard will consume the time and effort of your IT staff—time and effort that should be spent on value-add projects. You know you need a solution that will be inexpensive, accurate and intuitive, so you can prove compliance easily and efficiently.

Prove PCI-DSS compliance with Novell's Solution

Novell's Identity Driven Compliance and Security Monitoring solution gives you the tools and capabilities you need to comply—and prove that compliance—with PCI-DSS, including:

• Data aggregation and correlation
• Incident detection and remediation
• Systems monitoring and reporting

With these capabilities, you can reduce the number of staff hours it takes to complete and pass an audit. In addition, we deliver improved response times and reduced audit costs. Novell's solution allows you to detect and identify events in real-time, so you can see if those events are in violation of your company's policies—and it's all done from a central location. You don't have to worry about missing important audit data because of manual processing. Novell's solution is driven by your specific business processes and provides automated responses to incidents that occur within your organization, throughout the entire organization. With Identity Driven Compliance and Security Monitoring, you will know exactly what is happening in your enterprise at all times, making it easier for you to prove compliance.

Proven Compliance

We know you have to comply with PCI-DSS and many other industry and internal regulations. That's why we've created our Identity Driven Compliance and Security Monitoring solution. We can help you develop audit processes based on your business policies and your users' identities. And we give you the tools you need to lower total cost of ownership, increase productivity and prove compliance.