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Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Compliance Management Cookbook

By : Andreas Baumgarten (USD), Susan Roesner, Ronnie Isherwood
Book Image

Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Compliance Management Cookbook

By: Andreas Baumgarten (USD), Susan Roesner, Ronnie Isherwood

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Compliance Management Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Planning and defining compliance reports


The goal of compliance reports is to answer two things: "How am I doing" and "How effectively am I doing it" especially with regard to helping the business understand current and future threats.

This recipe gives an overview on how to plan compliance reports.

Getting ready

Research the regulatory requirements using your country's respective laws, industry standards, and regulation. This will ensure your reports are relative only to your business and technical compliance objectives. For example, there are standards such as SOX section 404 that demand reports with certain criteria.

How to do it...

There are going to be at least two different types of reports you must plan for:

  • Compliance status or audit reports

  • Stakeholder-targeted reports

Compliance status / audit reports

Compliance status / audit reports are based on your controls. For these reports to answer the question about the actual compliance status and the effectiveness of the compliance program for...