Extensible IT Frameworks Try to Meet Compliance Mandates

With the deadlines for Sarbanes-Oxley, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Patriot Act and other federal regulatory mandates upon us, the heat is on IT administrators to help their companies comply with the law. It's a confusing process, but new extensible IT frameworks just might be the answer companies are looking for.

According to an article by Richard Gincel in InfoWorld, business and IT are joining together to create extensible compliance frameworks that can accommodate any number of regulatory mandates. These frameworks, he says, provide companies with component-like reusability designed to simplify change management and reduce deployment costs.

"The good news, experts say, is that separate regulations bodies have many directives in common," Gincel writes, "thereby enabling IT to create a modular compliance framework. Most companies already have systems that employees and consultants can leverage and integrate into a wider compliance strategy."

Gincel says that companies that deploy framework-based technologies will enjoy an overall increase in IT flexibility even after the dust clears for all these regulations.

To read the full article, click here: http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/06/32FEcomply_1.html.