BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - October 4, 2007) - Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks company (
NYSE:
HHS), today announced a new research report on "Sustaining Compliance"
which reveals that Best-in-Class organizations view security-related
compliance not as a one-time event, but as a strategic, sustainable
program. In addition to helping them to achieve and sustain compliance
requirements, these organizations also enjoy lower operational costs,
support higher scale, reduce security risk, and maintain consistent
security policies.
The research shows that 44% of Best-in-Class organizations reduced the cost
of addressing non-compliance incidents over the last year, and 26% reduced
the cost of addressing security-related incidents. Both of these measures
are up to 15-times higher than those for all respondents. Best-in-Class
organizations also reduced the time spent on reactive "as-needed"
management, auditing, and reporting by a factor of 3-times compared to the
Industry Average.
"Leaders in Best-in-Class organizations position their compliance
initiatives as a journey, not a destination," said Derek E. Brink, vice
president and research director for IT security at Aberdeen. "Like all
journeys, sustaining compliance begins with a single step -- in this case,
a strategic commitment to management, auditing and reporting as part of an
integrated security and compliance strategy."
A complimentary copy of this research report is made available due in part
by the following research underwriters: Shavlik Technologies, Cisco
Systems, eIQnetworks, netForensics, Tripwire and LogRhythm. To obtain a
complimentary copy of the report, visit:
http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?cid=4263
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Contact Information: Media Contact:
Derek Brink
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Derek.Brink@aberdeen.com