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Is your organization concerned with Regulatory Compliance?

The Solution Accelerators – Security and Compliance team provides guidance and tools to manage compliance infrastructure and to institute sound principles of IT service governance.

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There are a variety of Compliance related assets that are available for download on our IT Governance & Compliance site:

• IT Compliance Management Guide
  This Solution Accelerator can help you shift your governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) efforts from people to technology. Use its configuration guidance to help efficiently address your organization’s GRC objectives.
• Microsoft® Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0
  MOF 4.0 delivers practical guidance for everyday IT practices and activities, helping users establish and implement reliable, cost-effective IT services for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) activities.
• Security Compliance Management Toolkit
  This toolkit provides proven methods that your organization can use to effectively monitor the compliance state of recommended security baselines for Windows Vista®, Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), and Windows Server® 2003 SP2.
• Security Risk Management Guide
  The Security Risk Management Guide helps customers plan, build, and maintain a successful security risk management program.

Microsoft’s IT Governance & Compliance site:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/regulatorycompliance/default.aspx