Crash Course: Compliance

New guidelines from the U.S. and abroad are changing the way you deal with enterprise data. Understanding and planning for compliance can cause real headaches if you're not tracking the latest information. Spin through this quick Crash Course to get up to date. You can also sign up for our Compliance Alerts newsletter to get breaking news in this area.

Getting started:
Whatis definition of compliance
Where to focus your compliance efforts
Best practices for enabling and maintaining compliance
How to set up storage practices to deal with compliance
Regulatory compliance and its impact on IT
The guidelines of data retention
Webcast: New data regulations: How to achieve compliance
All aboard the new federal security rules' super train
What regulatory compliance means for storage security

The costs of compliance:
Going back in time to save your data
Costs of compliance in 2004
Where to put your compliance dollars
Compliance buying decisions -- the right way, the smart way
Convince management to spend for Sarbanes-Oxley
How can I set up a cost-effective tiered storage strategy?

Sarbanes-Oxley:
Monitoring software keeps e-mails legal and relevant
Security flaw could put EMC Centera users at risk
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Users feel Sarbanes pains
Sarbanes-Oxley reading list
Webcast: Make your storage Sarbanes-Oxley compliant
Managing corporate records for Sarbanes-Oxley
Part two: Managing corporate records for Sarbanes-Oxley
Learn SOX compliance from the DoD
Of Sarbanes, Oxley and storage
How Sarbanes-Oxley will affect privately held companies

HIPAA:

HIPAA -- a bang or a whimper?
HIPAA prompts hospitals to reconsider storage
How to get management to accept HIPAA compliance

Archive/backup/recovery resources:
Product roundup: Archiving tools
Archiving project saves Motorola big bucks
Benefits of a dedicated e-mail archive server
The benefits of WORM disk
How your backup choices impact compliance
SEC gives nod to some disk-based archive
Can secure document shredding be used for compliance?

Additional resources:
Enterprise Storage Group compliance report
From regulation to desperation: A life sciences case study in compliance
Compliance and digital-content growth drive content-storage market

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