Compliance resources: Tips and news from around TechTarget

Did you know that TechTarget now has more than 60 different websites, each of which focuses on a different form of technology? You can find compliance resources on nearly every one of them.

As a former editor at WhatIs.com, I’m familiar with the thousands of tips, news stories and learning resources around the network. For the time-starved reader, especially a busy compliance professional, simply being aware of what compliance resources are available can be a challenge. Here’s the best of what you’ll find on our sister sites from the past months:

CIOs and compliance

On SearchCIO.com, senior news writer Linda Tucci writes that according to research consultancy Gartner, IT security jobs will morph into risk management. The work of our contributors and the IT practitioners we talk to here at SearchCompliance.com confirm this trend. The staff at SearchCIO.com also put together a briefing on enterprise risk management solutions for CIOs and a selection of information security and IT governance guides for CIOs.

SearchCIO-Midmarket.com’s associate site editor, Kristen Caretta, also recently interviewed iRobot CIO Jay Leader. During the video interview, addresses the importance of a solid IT strategy – no small issue for this midsized company that must maintain a high-level of security and secrecy given its defense contracts.

Compliance in the cloud

Tucci is similarly focused on the compliance issues that are presented to the enterprise CIO considering cloud computing for data backup and storage. In addressing compliance requirements in cloud computing contracts, as Tucci makes clear, regulatory compliance requirements must be both expressly defined and then addressed – “or the data brought back down to earth.”

One of TechTarget’s newest websites, SearchCloudComputing.com, naturally has published stories on similar issues. In “Cloud computing skepticism: IT security and compliance,” research director Andi Mann explores whether security and compliance concerns in the cloud can be reconciled.

Compliance and Security

Over at SearchSecurity.com, you’ll find dozens of resources in its audit, compliance and standards topical section. You can watch instructional videos about testing PCI compliance requirement 11 or using IAM tools to improve compliance.

Recent news included coverage of MasterCard’s increase in PCI compliance requirements for some merchants (Visa says it won’t follow suit) or the increasing risks to identity theft, in “Researchers predict SSNs, crack algorithm putting identities at risk.”

Security expert David Mortman recently addressed the recent changes to HIPAA regulations that resulted from the HITECH Act in “HIPAA compliance: New regulations change the game.” Enterprise security teams charged with safeguarding PHI will find his insights useful. Mortman has also written this month about how to find virtual machines for greater virtualization compliance.

We’ve also partnered with SearchSecurity.com to produce both events and in-depth content like the recent log management e-book. Download the e-book (free registration required) to learn how automation can reduce the operational burdens of regulatory compliance.

SearchFinancialSecurity.com, given its focus on the financial industry, naturally features content to help security officers in that highly regulated vertical manage compliance. For instance, in “Tokenization and PCI compliance,” Ed Moyle explains what this relatively new technology may mean for the protection of sensitive credit card data. Our sister website also includes a video on Red Flags Rule compliance featuring John Carlson, senior vice president of regulatory affairs for BITS, a division of the Financial Services Roundtable.

Compliance and the channel

Our colleagues at SearchSecurityChannel.com are also covering the security aspects of compliance. As Neil Roiter writes in “Vulnerabilities, regulatory compliance drive data protection market,” while risk and vulnerability management are the two headings under which security spending often falls, the ultimate goal of both is data protection.

SearchSystemsChannel.com also features compliance coverage, in particular the specific U.S. laws and regulations that represent compliance and security concerns for Microsoft Office SharePoint.

Compliance and storage

Over at SearchSMBStorage.com, contributor Kevin Beaver recently wrote about making sense of regulatory compliance and data storage for SMBs.

Feedback

If you found this roundup useful, please let us know at editor@SearchCompliance.com or at @ITCompliance on Twitter. If so, I’ll do it again in August.