For most companies today, the question is no longer if
they have personnel dedicated to compliance issues.

The question today is if they have internal personnel or have outsourced their compliance needs.

It’s a brave new world. Network security and industry compliance issues are now everywhere these days.

And they’re not going away. And many will remain moving targets for years to come.

These issues now touch virtually every aspects of an organization— security, storage, privacy, asset management, identity access, monitoring, human resources access, recovery and business continuity, records retention, network configuration and change management, among many others.

If anything, the burden to safeguard, chronicle and anticipate every possible contingency and think not three but ten steps ahead seems to increase monthly.

Increasingly, signed and certified documents are becoming part of the audit trail when companies are pulled into security related and compliance litigation.

This increased accountability and external demands make the cost justification for comprehensive company-wide compliance infrastructure and proactive management more apparent than ever. IT managers and front line personnel, many already stretched to their limits are faced with the growing responsibility for regulatory and industry compliance. It has fallen on IT to make sure safeguards are in place so that data is protected, ever-evolving mandates are met and supporting documentation is current and sound.

In the face of these pressures, many companies are choosing to outsource all or parts of their compliance and regulatory requirements.