IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) 2012 Management Pack Released!

[System-Center-Team]

First published on TECHNET on May 09, 2012

The Microsoft Solution Accelerators and the System Center Service Manager teams are pleased to announce the availability of the System Center 2012 Process Pack for IT GRC. Download the System Center 2012 Process Pack for IT GRC. The System Center 2012 Process Pack for IT GRC helps simplify, strengthen, and manage your organization’s IT GRC programs.  This process pack enables your organization to manage compliance programs for over 400 regulations and standards, track risks and incidents, and automate hundreds of controls. This update to the Process Pack for IT GRC adds capabilities allowing you to: · Streamline your GRC process through exception management · Drive data insights through comprehensive trend reporting · Stay current with the latest knowledge libraries New and existing users can download this release of the Process Pack for IT GRC from the Microsoft Download Center. Streamline and strengthen your IT GRC compliance process through a combination of policy enforcement and a simplified exception management mechanism. With the exception management feature, you can now optimize your IT GRC process: easily define, classify, and manage noncompliance incidents, technology/service constraints, and justifiable exceptions. Simplified exception management provides for the creation, approval, and reporting of justifiable exceptions to control and assess the applicability for a given business/IT situation. Drive deeper insights into your compliance health and status with comprehensive trending analysis and richer reporting.  Proactively manage your IT compliance life cycle trends through multi-dimensional analysis across various measures, including control activities, risk factors, and exceptions, to strengthen your IT governance, risk, and compliance programs. With the System Center 2012 Process Pack for IT GRC, you can automatically check, download, and keep abreast of the latest knowledge libraries through online and offline updates. With this release, you can broaden your IT compliance scope with even more control activities for various Microsoft technologies, including Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, and more. For a complete end-to-end solution, the Process Pack for IT GRC should be used in combination with System Center Service Manager 2012 . To learn more, please visit the System Center site . System Center Service Manager and these IT GRC solutions provide a customizable and extensible platform that enables customers and partners to implement additional GRC capabilities. The System Center 2012 Process Pack for IT GRC provides end-to-end compliance management and automa­tion for desktop and datacenter computers. Download the System Center 2012 Process Pack for IT GRC. Learn more. To learn more about this end-to-end IT GRC solution, please visit the System Center site . Tell your peers. Please forward this to anyone who wants to learn more about IT GRC solutions from the System Center Service Manager and Microsoft Solution Accelerators teams. Compliance Management Forum Regulatory Compliance TechCenter Security Solution Accelerators Microsoft Solution Accelerators

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