Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)

The latest news on Governance, Risk, and Compliance from Microsoft.

Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2008 R2 - Now Available

Identify, classify, and protect data across targeted file servers in your organization The Solution...

Date: 08/22/2011

New Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2008 R2 Solution Accelerator – Now in Beta Release!

The Microsoft Solution Accelerators Team has a new IT governance, risk, and compliance (IT GRC)...

Date: 06/08/2011

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 Beta Now Available!

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be available in the near future. Are you thinking about...

Date: 06/17/2009

Microsoft Survey

In SAT we value your interest in our work. We would like to ask you to take a few minutes of your...

Date: 01/28/2009

Now Live - TechNet Radio: IT Manager Dialog Series: Governance and Compliance

A new technet Radio segment on our work has just been completed, if your interested in hearing a bit...

Date: 01/28/2009

Opportunity to participate in a Live meeting.

The compliance team would like to invite you to a live meeting where you can share your ideas on...

Date: 01/21/2009

New TechNet Resource for GRC

Today we published a new and improved TechNet site that focuses on governance, risk, and compliance...

Date: 11/25/2008

Address your GRC needs by leveraging your existing Microsoft investment!

This Solution Accelerator can save you time and money by shifting your governance, risk, and...

Date: 10/31/2008

Are Your Clouds Available?

Clouds Are on the Rise Cloud computing has been variously described as utility computing, hosting...

Date: 10/08/2008

New Compliance Management forum.

The Compliance team from Solution Accelerators would like to invite you to join in conversation on...

Date: 09/29/2008

Risk Management.

Within the Solution Accelerators library, many nuggets get overlooked. One of these nuggets is the...

Date: 09/20/2008

Microsoft Compliance Management Series BETA released

The Solution Accelerators - Security and Compliance team has released a beta version of its first...

Date: 09/10/2008

What is Zermatt?

SOX doesn’t matter as much as a “change of SOX.” HIPAA does not matter as much as a change to HIPAA....

Date: 08/18/2008

Microsoft Regulatory Compliance Planning Guide Update

One of our Solution Acclerator teams is looking for your help, please join us for this great...

Date: 07/28/2008

How to Use AccessChk.exe for Security Compliance Management secguide blog!

In a partner secguide article we invited Michael Tan, one of our senior program managers, to...

Date: 07/21/2008

Health Vault = Compliance

I don’t know about you, but for me it's a challenge to keep up with the health information of myself...

Date: 07/18/2008

Regulatory Compliance Blogs again.

Welcome Back! As a reader of this blog, I felt it was important to try and bring some life back to...

Date: 07/17/2008

Payment Card Industry Standards Updated

Excerpted from SANS NewsBites (see www.sans.org to subscribe): --Credit Card Companies Update PCI (8...

Date: 09/13/2006

Reaching Out to Individual Contributors

The most important but sometimes overlooked aspect of regulatory compliance is in getting the buy-in...

Date: 08/23/2006

A Sustainable Spreadsheet Compliance Framework with Excel 2007, Office 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007

Spreadsheets are ubiquitous. For many organizations they are a critical resource and essential to...

Date: 08/01/2006

Auditing Rant!

I am seeing a disturbing trend in the industry and I am going to complain. Over the past few months,...

Date: 07/11/2006

Break Down Regulatory Complaince Into Manageable Steps

Are your regulatory compliance (RC) policies being followed the way you expect them to be? Helping...

Date: 06/15/2006

Microsoft release the Regulatory Compliance Planning Guide

Yesterday, Microsoft released the Regulatory Compliance Planning Guide. This guide is available at...

Date: 06/15/2006

The "F" Word

The word is framework, of course. What did you think? It is important that we establish some way of...

Date: 04/22/2006

Don't Panic

Addressing the caveats of regulatory compliance is like approaching any other risk. We will look at...

Date: 03/23/2006

Regulatory Compliance Planning Guide Beta Coming

Just a heads up that Microsoft soon will be making available a beta version of a Regulatory...

Date: 03/08/2006

Regulatory Compliance and the IT Manager

There are a lot of legislative bodies that are requiring IT to protect information for different...

Date: 03/02/2006

Contributory Compliance Technologies

A problem for regulatory compliance document and data management systems can be employee subversion,...

Date: 02/27/2006

Regulatory Compliance is a Treasure Trove of Value

Regulatory Compliance (RC) is a treasure trove of value. From better business intelligence to...

Date: 02/13/2006

Paper Harmonizes COBIT, ITIL, and ISO 17799

ITGI and the UK government's Office of Government Commerce (OGC) have released a paper that shows...

Date: 02/07/2006

Old News: COBIT 4.0 Released

Toward the end of last year, the IT Governance Institute released the latest version of their...

Date: 01/22/2006

Regulatory Compliance Learning Resources

There's a new page on Technet that lists regulatory compliance resources currently available from...

Date: 11/09/2005

Feedback Requested: What is your biggest compliance headache?

This is your opportunity to vent! What causes you the most heartburn around compliance. Is it the...

Date: 06/28/2005

SOX spending will continue

According to this article, two-thirds of CIOs say that SOX spending is a high-priority, and of...

Date: 06/28/2005

Non-RC: Shared Use Toolkit Beta Released

One of my co-workers has just released a beta version of a very cool toolkit for shared computers....

Date: 06/28/2005

AMR predicts regulatory compliance spending

AMR Research recently released their predictions for regulatory compliance spending. In short, they...

Date: 06/24/2005

National Data Breach Notification Law Coming?

There may be a new law to comply with: a federal data breach notification law (a la California...

Date: 06/23/2005