Solution launched to enforce regulatory compliance for employees and third parties

Whale Communications, the enterprise level SSL VPN provider, and compliance and policy management specialist, Secoda Risk Management, have announced a joint solution which ‘forges the missing link between corporate policy awareness and auditable secure remote access’. This solution does more than report on regulatory compliance by actually enabling enforcement, say the two companies. For the first time, business has a practical tool to ensure that remote workers – employees and contractors alike – must comply with corporate security policies before they can access the network or use any applications remotely.

"The biggest threat to businesses as they increasingly enable their employees to work remotely is the behaviour of those employees, accidentally or intentionally, leaving their IT infrastructure open to the outside world. This approach ensures that everyone accessing an organisation’s applications is authorised and that their understanding of the procedures affecting them can be controlled and monitored, providing an audit trail that can be used to check and modify employee behaviour,” said Bob Tarzey, service director, Quocirca Ltd.

Tight integration between Whale's e-Gap SSL VPN and Secoda's RuleSafe, provides an end-to-end solution for online management and enforcement of both awareness and acceptance of corporate policies. In practice what this means is that if companies so desire, they now have the ability to block remote users from accessing their applications and information remotely until these users have signalled understanding and acceptance of corporate policies and regulations. Workers can enjoy the benefits of efficient and secure remote access at the same time as knowing they are adhering to corporate security policies. The joint solution provides clear visibility of the current level of compliance within an organisation.

“Regulatory issues are placing an increasing burden on businesses, which are seeking to go about their daily work effectively while complying with emerging standards and regulations. Through this joint solution, we are offering companies access to an effective compliance-aware front end that eases this burden and at the same time improves their business performance,” said Daniel Steiner, Whale’s president.

"By adding our policy management engine to Whale's SSL VPN we are securing a loop hole in companies’ compliance management. By carrying out gap analysis and ensuring policy understanding and acceptance by all users across the VPN, companies can reduce vulnerability. Information security officers can now demonstrate effective security management to executive management, customers, suppliers and auditors," said Adrian Wright, managing director of Secoda Risk Management.

www.whalecommunications.com
www.secoda.com

•Date: 28th April 2005 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: ISM
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