Sean Moshir

IT security professionals who are already managing the bottom-line expectations of their boardrooms while guarding their organizations against myriad security threats have a new "C-level" challenge - that of compliance. These professionals must now meet voluntary and mandatory regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). A critical piece of the compliancy puzzle and an instrumental component already supporting the enterprise IT security posture, patch and vulnerability management is quickly becoming a multi-faceted solution that IT security professionals are employing to address this challenge. However, determining the exact role of automated patch and vulnerability management and policy and how it supports and meets volunt... (more)