AST has announced a partnership with Consul Risk management Inc, widely regarded as a worldwide leader in security event management and auditing solutions in both enterprise security and the newer field of regulatory compliance.
"AST is pleased to partner with one of the big movers in the latest Gartner Security Management quadrant," says Bryce Thorrold, AST Business Unit Manager for Information Security.
"There is currently a gap in the South African mainframe market for a security solution that truly encompasses security management and delivers business value to the organisation," adds Thorrold.
"Consul was selected because of their market dominance internationally and their comprehensive solution set as a true security management solution has to deliver monitoring, auditing and policy enforcement in an integrated fashion. "
Consul`s products have the ability to audit the mainframe, provide real-time status and event reporting, enforce commands according to policy and provide real-time intrusion detection and prevention. Deploying and successfully managing these different applications through one interface is crucial to effective security management.
In the global village of information technology, organisations need to start proving that they do in fact measure up to international security regulatory certifications, and this is an arena where AST sees Consul playing a huge role.
Consul has launched various regulatory compliance modules, which deliver specific regulation out-of-the-box policy templates, a dashboard and dozens of reports tailored for security auditing and management activities vital to compliance with the relevant regulations.
"With the IT security management needs of our customers maturing, out of the technical environment and into a more formal and managed environment, we see Consul as a very important partner in this process," continues Thorrold. "It is not that businesses are ignoring security and privacy regulations, but in many cases, they do not fully understand them or do not realise they are out of compliance until an auditor threatens fines or worse if requirements are not met."
Regulatory-compliance acts are changing the way business is conducted not only by banks, hospitals and a slew of other industries, but by solution providers as well, as they help customers navigate through the compliance dilemma.
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