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How do compliance, management directives, best practices relate to IT? |
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| 20 Mar 2008 | SearchStorageChannel.com |
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Q: What is your understanding of how compliance, management directives and best practices relate to the IT infrastructure?
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| About the expert |
| Ryk Edelstein is the founder and director of operations of Converge Net Inc., a Montreal-based network services provider specializing in data loss prevention, risk and vulnerability management, and automated policy violation detection and protection. He has held various roles for a number of IT services companies since 1981. Click to download his data storage security FAQ podcast. |
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The need to implement data storage security can be driven by requirements to meet compliance, management directives or best practice. Often the client may not understand the relationship between this need and how it applies to their IT infrastructure or existing policies. A client stating that they need to implement a technology, such as encryption, for the purpose of protecting specific information in order to attain compliance objectives, may lack an understanding of how the data to be protected is used, and who needs to access it, or have a clear grasp on what the true benefits of encryption are to their environment. The relationship between how data or storage hardware is deployed and the objectives of storage security may not be realistic.
Conducting your own assessment of the client's environment can avert any missed expectations and complications at the deployment stage. Make sure that the client has a clear understanding of why these technologies need to be put in place and that your understanding of the client's business objectives and their understanding are in sync.
Return to the data storage security FAQ guide and read the rest of Ryk's expert responses.
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