Active Reasoning Expands IT Compliance Capabilities to Meet Evolving IT Auditing Requirements.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Solution Now Includes Application Monitoring Templates and Automated Change Detection Capabilities for Active Directory and Registry Keys Active Reasoning, a leading developer of IT Compliance Solutions, today announced automated change detection capabilities for Windows Active Directory and Registry Keys. In addition, Active Reasoning's IT Compliance Solutions will now include change detection monitoring templates for popular applications and operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . These advanced features are designed to meet new and evolving auditing requirements by automatically detecting and reporting change activity by people on material financial applications. Today, auditors are requiring IT organizations to provide "system generated" reports that detail changes and direct access to financial systems. Most companies currently gather this data through manual processes such as spreadsheets and email. Auditors prefer generated reports because they are based upon data directly obtained from the operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. or application. Active Reasoning's change detection capabilities are system generated and include file, database, and messaging configuration changes; and process and direct access activity on a variety of platforms. "Over the past two years, auditors have learned more about the IT infrastructure and importance of strong change controls," said Marv Tseu, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Active Reasoning. "As auditors identify new control points that should be monitored, our flexible foundation and monitoring capabilities can meet these new requirements to reduce the cost and complexity of future audits." "Publicly traded companies publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. have spent millions of dollars manually complying with Sarbanes-Oxley legislation," said Jasmine Noel, Ptak Noel analyst. "Proactive businesses that minimize the manual component of their compliance processes using automation tools, such as Active Reasoning's, can dramatically reduce their on-going compliance spending and reap additional ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). on their compliance investment." Today's announcement expands Active Reasoning's automated change detection capabilities to additional infrastructure components including: --Active Directory: User additions, permission changes and deletions. Changes to these directory settings can impact direct access privileges to material systems. --Registry Keys: Changes to any Windows Registry The Windows registry is a directory which stores settings and options for the operating system for Microsoft Windows 32-bit versions, 64-bit versions and Windows Mobile. It contains information and settings for all the hardware, operating system software, most non-operating system Keys that can affect the reliability of a financial application or underlying operating system. In addition, Active Reasoning is accelerating the time it takes to establish IT change controls. Identifying the internal and external infrastructure controls can seem like a daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin task. For example, a company that has ten distinct financial systems encompassing 17 supporting applications and 200 servers can potentially require hundreds of control points. Within its IT Compliance Solutions, Active Reasoning is bundling standardized monitoring templates for common applications and operating systems such as Windows 2000, Solaris, SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. and Oracle. These templates were created by industry experts and identify vital directories, files and processes that are required to sustain an application or operating system. Once these templates are deployed and monitored by Active Reasoning, companies can better assess and audit change activities with relevant and meaningful data. Pricing and Availability The automated change detection and monitoring capabilities for Active Directory and Register Keys are available today within Active Reasoning's Compliance Solutions. Pricing for these solutions starts at US $75,000. About Active Reasoning Active Reasoning develops IT compliance software that audits peoples' activities within the enterprise data center. By automating the process of monitoring, validating, and controlling changes to the IT infrastructure, Active Reasoning simplifies ongoing compliance requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds). and strengthens IT operations. Fortune 1000 companies across a broad set of industries currently use Active Reasoning software to effectively meet compliance requirements. Active Reasoning is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , founded in 2002 and headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. For more information, visit the company's website at www.activereasoning.com or call 650-404-9900. |
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