Kurt Shintaku's Blog

Managing compliance issues imposed by regulations and statutory requirements can be difficult to reconcile with regulations and standards such as:

• PCI DSS
• ISO 27002
• AICPA GAPP
• COBIT

An additional challenge is the lack of a single source of compliance configuration guidance for Microsoft products.

The Compliance Management Series (a MOF–based expansion of the Regulatory Compliance Planning Guide) provides Standards of Care and simple checklists to help you configure Microsoft products to address Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) requirements.  Standards of Care simplify complex categories such as Asset Management, Compliance Management, and Risk Management, and clarify how to configure Microsoft products quickly and effectively for these categories.

The Series uses Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0 to provide a mechanism for viewing data in a Plan-Deliver-Operate-Manage methodology.

The beta release of the Compliance Management Series is now available and will be open thru September 24, 2008 for your review.

Participation in the beta includes:

• OneCompliance package download
• On-going Interactive LiveMeetings & conference calls for feedback & understanding
• Access to OneCompliance newsgroups

OneCompliance Platform
Microsoft is developing the OneCompliance Platform, a risk and compliance management solution. It will provide a common platform through which organizations can integrate compliance efforts to address business objectives and risks using frameworks, controls, and control assessments. The solution will also create a marketplace for Microsoft partners to develop knowledge extensions and continuous controls monitoring solutions that integrate with the OneCompliance Platform.

REGISTER:  http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9522146
(This link will connect you to Microsoft Connect, our Beta participation enrollment web site which will require you to login using your Windows Live ID/Passport credentials.  You must have a previously established Windows Live ID registered with us.  If you don’t have a Windows Live ID, first go to http://get.live.com/getlive/overview to register and get an ID)