Achieving Sustainable Compliance

Compliance has become one of the most important responsibilities of any enterprise IT department. IT is responsible for data protection requirements from Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), HIPAA and more than 10,000 regulations in the United States alone. This is in addition to meeting daily service level agreements (SLAs) for internal customers.

Compliance imposes an expensive resource drain on a company’s IT staff – developing, generating and distributing reports; writing and maintaining scripts; responding to requests from auditors and internal stakeholders; and participating in compliance committees within the organization. In addition, IT must prove they are actually protecting data according to their organization’s policies. Responsibility for creating an audit trail falls on the back-up administrator.

One of the key challenges to compliance is making it sustainable. Compliance is not a one-time test that must be passed – it is an ongoing, never-ending responsibility that IT must continually focus on. Auditors and audit processes keep changing, and new requirements necessitate writing new reports and new scripts – a time-consuming manual-labor-intensive undertaking.

APTARE StorageConsole Backup Manager

Easy Audit Trail Development
Sustainable compliance means that you are always audit-ready regardless of changes in auditors, regulations, your organization and your IT environment.  APTARE StorageConsole Backup Manager documents the end-to-end data protection status of your data and establishes an audit trail so you can answer all requests and prove your data is protected per established policies.

The key to the audit trail is all in the reporting. APTARE StorageConsole Backup Manager simplifies report management, eliminating the cost, time and effort spent creating and updating scripts, reports and dashboards. APTARE StorageConsole’s real-time reporting is always up-to-date so your compliance is always current.

Proactive Monitoring and Alerting
APTARE StorageConsole Backup Manager monitors your environment 24/7 and sends alerts so you can solve issues before they become problems that impact compliance. Flexible alerting options include email, scripts, or SNMP traps, so you can customize alerts to fit your environment and compliance needs. APTARE StorageConsole Backup Manager can even be set up to automatically remediate an issue when a problem is detected.

Advanced Sharing Options
APTARE StorageConsole Backup Manager provides advanced sharing functionality to allow you to respond quickly and efficiently to changing requests, while minimizing the time needed to interface with auditors and internal stakeholders. A variety of reports and dashboards can be sent via email, while still maintaining strict security. This capability is essential in outlining the end-to-end data protection lifecycle from tape to disc to vault, as well as the content of offsite media, the organization’s data protection policies, and your ability meet compliance requirements.

More Compliance Resources

	White Paper: Seven Challenges of Backup Compliance
	Webcast: Acheiving Sustainable Compliance
	Screen Shots: StorageConsole Compliance Reports