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Symantec compliance suite offers end-to-end automation

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Symantec has announced an update to its Control Compliance Suite 9.0 software aimed at supporting information technology governance, risk and compliance initiatives.

The software is designed to help customers automate key IT compliance processes to reduce the cost of managing compliance, said Jitesh Chanchani, Symantec’s director of product management for compliance and security solutions.

Government IT teams have to interpret vaguely written mandates, manage risk and support recurring audits for programs such as the Federal Information Security Management Act and Federal Desktop Core Configuration initiative, Chanchani said.

“What our product does is take an end-to-end look at that process and automate it,” he said. “So your cost for demonstrating compliance goes down, and you get a much better handle on your assessment of risk.”

People too often work in silos, which results in a lot of duplicated effort, Chanchani said. With the Symantec product, agencies can standardize on one platform and do controlled assessments at one time, driving down the cost of the effort and increasing accuracy.

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