As discussed in Chapter 5, Starting an Enterprise Compliance Program, to ensure a successful compliance project, each of the different stakeholders must be included. Stakeholders provide input for the compliance program, such as knowledge on compliance requirements, meaningful control objectives, and activities in addition to support. This recipe will show which stakeholders should be included and what involvement or responsibilities will be required of them within it. The focus of this recipe is to define responsibilities and use the System Center products to realize your compliance program.

Identifying or defining the stakeholder or owner of certain parts of your compliance program at all levels will assist in developing a communication plan at each of those levels. As mentioned in Chapter 5, Starting an Enterprise Compliance Program, communication is one of the key steps for the successful implementation of your compliance...