HIPAA compliance: Now and forever - Security mgmt. vendors promise to keep customers in compliance

摘要

A slew of start-ups are rolling out tools tc help.newly compliant IT shops monitor, maintain and enforce compliance, policies Meeting the demands of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act, and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act requires constant data analysis, a chore that security management newcomers Elemental Security, elQNetworks and Procera Networks hope to ease. "IT managers need to have ongoing visibility into their compliance levels to avoid drifting out of compliance over the course of six months or so,"says Scott Crawford, a senior analyst with Enterprise Management Associates. "No one wants to have a big compliance project every year. Security and policy management products can automate parts of the ongoing monitoring and enforcement compliance policies."